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Taliesin, Entry Bridge

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“Taliesin ( tal-ee-ESS-in; is a house-studio complex located 2.5 miles south of the village of Spring Green, Wisconsin, United States. Developed and occupied by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, the 600-acre estate is an exemplar of the Prairie School of architecture.”

Wikipedia article Taliesin (studio), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 30 National Register listings published here for Iowa County · listed in 1973 · category: Structure · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 5 buildingss, 3 structuress, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
  • Address. 2 mi. S of Spring Green on WI 23, Spring Green, 53588
  • When was it listed? April 1973
  • Category. structure
  • Town. Wyoming town
  • Architectural style. Prairie School architecture
  • Architect. Frank Lloyd Wright
  • National Register reference number. 73000081 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

The ground it stands on

2,718 words

This property stands in Wyoming Town. History of Iowa County, Wisconsin, Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources...biographical Sketches.., published 1881 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Wyoming Town - 2,718 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

104 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Taliesin, Entry Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 116 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 4 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Equipment and vehicle use17
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural3
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 1996Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFAR LOOK FIRE
20 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Iowa County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Taliesin, Entry Bridge: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Larson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Spring Green Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Iowa County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

5 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Spring Green Restaurant0.5 miles2024
Unity Chapel0.8 miles1974
Shot Tower1.3 miles1973
Wyoming Valley School2.8 miles2016
Hyde Chapel7.2 miles1988

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 73000081 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Iowa CountyAll 30 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.