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The Tragic History of Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin
TLDR Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright's greatest work, was the site of a tragic massacre in which seven people were killed. This event had a profound impact on Wright's personal and professional life, leading to a dysfunctional and abusive relationship and disrupting his subsequent marriages.
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin is considered his greatest work, serving as his home, studio, school, and an 800 acre estate that was very personal to him.
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin, built in 1911, was inspired by the surrounding environment and featured a lot of horizontal lines, natural materials, and woodworking, with 524 windows and no gutters to allow icicles to form on the eaves of the roof during Wisconsin winters.
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Frank Lloyd Wright had an extramarital affair with a woman named Mama Borthwick, which led him to leave his wife and six children and go into voluntary exile in Europe, leaving his family in financial straits.
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Frank Lloyd Wright's mistress left her husband and children to go to Europe with him, where they were eventually found out and faced backlash from their social circle.
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Frank Lloyd Wright's mistress and her two children were having lunch on the terrace at Taliesin when they were joined by Frank Lloyd Wright's employees.
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Julian Carlton, the handyman of the property, acted strangely leading up to the massacre, and during lunch, he slaughtered Mama Borthwick and her children, poured gasoline under the dining room doors, set the house on fire, and killed seven out of the nine people dining that day, with three survivors.
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Julian Carlton, the handyman responsible for the Taliesin Massacre, drank hydrochloric acid in an attempt to end his life and died seven weeks later in jail from starvation.
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Frank Lloyd Wright's personal and professional life suffered greatly after the Taliesin Massacre, and he entered into a dysfunctional and abusive relationship with an artist named Miriam Hicks Noel.
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Frank Lloyd Wright's third marriage to Olga Ivana was initially disrupted by Miriam, his second wife, who refused to give him a divorce and even got him arrested at one point, but eventually, Olga and Frank were able to have a happy married life until his death in 1959.
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