Artful Crimes, Volume 2: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Massacre

Season 5, Episode 202,   Apr 19, 2021, 07:00 AM

Famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright begins an affair with Martha “Mamah” Borthwick. When the scandal threatens his career and reputation, he builds a home near Spring Green, Wisconsin. Called “Taliesin”, it was supposed to be a place of peace and refuge for the couple, but in 1914, it became the site of a horrifying massacre. 

Famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright begins an affair with Martha “Mamah” Borthwick. When the scandal threatens his career and reputation, he builds a home near Spring Green, Wisconsin. Called “Taliesin”, it was supposed to be a place of peace and refuge for the couple, but in 1914, it became the site of a horrifying massacre. 

Resources: 
“Soulmate Stunt Loses its Zest”, Kokomo Daily Tribune, August 3, 1910.

Frank Lloyd Wright by Jan Adkins, published by Penguin Random House, 2008 

“Cook massacres seven at Wisconsin home Frank Lloyd Wright built for his mistress”, by Mara Bovsun for The New York Daily News, Jan 25, 2014. 

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