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To: AnAmericanMother
"Pretty amazing! Looks like a parody of Wright."

from a site I read "Jordan's dad, a budding architect, had been dismissed at Wright's Taliesin home, near Spring Green, with the declaration, "I wouldn't hire you to design a cheese crate or a chicken coop." Soon after, the senior Jordan chose a pinnacle rock south of Taliesin to build a parody of Wright's fancy-pants architecture, a strange "Japanese house." The ceilings were dangerously low (padded now to accommodate tourists) and the structure seemed to cling precariously to the odd contours of the rock."

We went there a number of times when we lived in Chicago. Lots of other stuff added to it (some interesting and odd collections, like automated musical instruments... a la player pianos up to a "player symphony". The house is worth a tour.

54 posted on 05/15/2007 6:25:35 PM PDT by Grammy ("Ms Pelosi is a very difficult person to embarrass." Fred Thompson, 4/11/07)
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To: Grammy
Sounds JUST like Rock City!

If you're ever down this way, give it a look see. It's tacky but charming. Beautiful natural rock formations with all sorts of touristy additions (notably all the little dwarf statues . . . )

It's built on the edge of Lookout Mountain, with a sheer drop of several hundred feet to the valley below.

55 posted on 05/15/2007 6:35:39 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: Grammy
Soon after, the senior Jordan chose a pinnacle rock south of Taliesin to build a parody of Wright's fancy-pants architecture, a strange "Japanese house."

The location was picked specifically because after the house was built, FLLW couldn't drive from Spring Green to Madison anymore without having to go by the place and look at it at least once... and if Wright decided he didn't want to look at the damn thing any more he'd have to go twelve miles out of his way to avoid it.

61 posted on 05/15/2007 11:56:14 PM PDT by jakewashere (politically incorrect and proud of it since 1982)
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