More than a home: Considering the Taliesin residence of Frank Lloyd Wright | Features

SPRING GREEN, Wis. — The land. It was all about the land for America’s most famous and visionary of architects. His designs seemed to emerge from the landscape organically. They adapted to it, reflected it, extended it.

It was especially true of the residences he created, not least his own. The Taliesin (East) complex, nestled in the verdant Wisconsin countryside, is emblematic of so many of Frank Lloyd Wright’s ground-breaking ideas.

Combined with his sense of the natural surroundings was Wright’s abiding reverence for natural materials such as wood and stone, his bent toward open floor planning, and his strategy for obscuring the distinction between interior and exterior space.







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Frank Lloyd Wright.




Whatever its type, a building had to possess integrity.

The 37,000-square-foot Taliesin estate, named after the mythic 7th-century Welsh poet, now is more than 100 years old and still strikingly impressive despite exterior signs of decay.

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Disney Dreamlight Valley – How To Upgrade Your House

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Figuring out how to upgrade your house in Disney Dreamlight Valley might not seem like a big deal at first, but once you start gathering more recipes and crafting furniture, that initial house gets small pretty fast.

Getting your first house upgrade is fairly straightforward, but after that, you’re on your own. Someone has to stimulate the village’s economy, after all.

Disney Dreamlight Valley House Upgrades

How to get the first house upgrades

The road to getting your first house expansion is relatively straightforward, though it does take a bit of time. You need to start Scrooge McDuck’s quest, Valley Economics 101, which you can begin by investing 1,000 coins into his shop. The quest’s next two steps are basically introductions to crafting and placing furniture around the valley. He asks you to create

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Police investigating ‘suspicious’ fire at Sumas Street home

All of the occupants had exited and were accounted for when fire crews started to knock down the blaze.

A cat was the sole casualty of what police are calling a suspicious house fire in Victoria’s Burnside neighborhood early Saturday.

The Victoria Fire Department responded about 4 am to a report of a fire at on Sumas Street, where they were met with heavy smoke and flames burning on the exterior of the home.

All of the occupants had exited and were accounted for when fire crews started to knock down the blaze.

When firefighters entered the home, they found heavy flames and were forced to exit and continue fighting from outside. A ladder truck was used to keep the fire contained to the home.

In all, 17 firefighters responded using three fire engines, one rescue truck, one ladder truck and one command vehicle.

A deceased cat was found inside

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This California home makes Meghan Markle ‘feel free’

It’s not a palace, but Prince Harry and Meghan Markle certainly live in a palatial California home — and now, a published report gives readers a look inside.

In an interview published Monday in The Cutthe 41-year-old actress and Duchess of Sussex details how the 18,000-square-foot residence in star-studded Montecito — which also counts Oprah Winfrey and Ellen DeGeneres as residents — makes her “feel free” and is “calm and healing.”

The pair bought the nine-bedroom, 16-bathroom estate for a cool $14.65 million in 2020 after quitting the royal family earlier that year — an estate with rose gardens, a tennis court, a tea house and a two-bedroom guest house. It’s reportedly the first home that both Prince Harry and Meghan had ever owned.

Two years after the big-bucks purchase, the property has become their home. And just like any other homeowners, the two are undertaking renovations, including fixing

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Habitat for Humanity, church fulfill mom’s last request for daughter

Homeowner Anastasia Hillard lays down flooring Aug.  27, 2022, inside her home in Oklahoma City.  Volunteers and workers with Central Oklahoma Habitat for Humanity's Critical Home Repair Program worked over several weekends making major repairs to Hillard's home.

It was a local mom’s last wish to see her daughter become the owner of a newly refurbished house.

A group of civic and community organizations along with a local church have been working to make Charlotte Hillard’s dream come true for her daughter, Anastasia.

Debra Johnson, leader of St. John’s parish fellowship ministry, called the recent home rehabilitation efforts “Anna’s House Habitat Project.” She said the exterior of the house had been greatly improved through an extensive remodeling effort through the city of Oklahoma City’s Homeowners Exterior Maintenance Program.

A recent project to improve the house’s interior was conducted through the Central Oklahoma Habitat for Humanity’s Critical Home Repair Program. The completed renovations to Anastasia Hillard’s northeast Oklahoma City home amounted to a complete interior overhaul. Volunteers, including many from St. John Missionary Baptist Church, worked on Hillard’s home Aug. 18-27.

Charlotte and Anastasia Hillard embrace in this photograph taken during a family celebration.

Volunteers worked on the home’s bathroom, installing new

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