“The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.” - Frank Lloyd-Wright Among the things that Wisconsin is famous for it is Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin in Spring Green, Wisconsin, that has most intensely captured my attention...
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Great houses deserve great gardens. Hearthstone, built in the 1880’s, is an important historic treasure. It is a stunning, Queen Anne style home that was also a technological breakthrough - the first house in the world lit with an Edison central hydroelectric station. Thanks to the discovery of an old landscape plan, Hearthstone is about to get a new historically inspired garden...
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Visiting Innisfree in Millbrook, New York, is like stepping into another world. Actually many different worlds. This amazing landscape uses Chinese garden techniques in a very modern American context. Innisfree has been on my garden visit list for some time. I was intrigued by people’s description of the garden. It is considered one of the “world’s ten best gardens”...
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