James Dannenberg takes us west on Highway 14:
U.S. Highway 14, known as the Frank Lloyd Wright Memorial Highway, begins due west of town and winds through beautiful countryside, past some of the pieces of the puzzle that make up the self-professed “world’s greatest architect.” I drove this bucolic byway last September, on a perfect autumn day when the deep greens were just beginning to turn to gold in anticipation of the long Midwestern winter.
You could cruise the 120 miles in a few hours and revel just in the Wisconsin landscapes. But there’s a reason it’s called the Frank Lloyd Wright Memorial Highway: This fascinating, complex architect was born, lived and worked within a figurative stone’s throw of U.S. 14, and much of his spirit remains along the way, in his buildings, including Taliesin in Spring Green, and in the hills and fields of western Wisconsin, the inspiration for Wright’s conception of “organic architecture,” which emphasized the synchronicity of structure and nature.
