"Taliesin, Wright's masterpiece, was the scene of a mass murder in August 1914, when a deranged servant set fire to Taliesin, then killed seven people with an ax as they tried to escape. The victims included Wright's mistress, her two children and other guests."
WOW! File this under: Learn something new everyday!
There's more: The mistress was the wife of one of Wright's clients. Scandalous today, beyond shocking in 1914.
I grew up near there. My dad used to take me over to Taliesin, and we would just sit on the road in front of it, and talk about all this stuff (like Stalin's daughter, etc.).
If you look up this incident (the fire), it's bizarre to read because of the time that the news articles were written. They refer to the perp by his ethnicity, but not by name. It's very strange to ponder that people used to think that way.
Anyway, he asked whether it would be all right to clean some rugs with gasoline while the family had lunch. He was given permission, and the next thing they knew, he had locked them inside the house and was dousing it. A horrible story.