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Prairie Architects, Inc. |
Owner: Johnson Foundation Project Scope: HIstoric Structures Report -- Preservation and Conservation Planning Clay Tile and Copper Roof Replacement -- Skylight Replacement Limestone and Brick Masonry Restoration -- Interior Restoration Adaptive Reuse Architecture |
Wingspread Conference Center Racine, Wisconsin |
Wingspread was built in 1939 in Racine, Wisconsin. Frank Lloyd Wright designed Wingspread for the family of H.F. Johnson, Jr., who lived there from 1939 to 1959. In 1959, Mr. Johnson established the Johnson Foundation, designating Wingspread as its educational conference facility. Over the years, the Foundation has sponsored thousands of conferences on issues ranging from arms control to education to sustainable development and much more. National Public Radio has its roots in a Wingspread conference, as do the National Endowment for the Arts and numerous other organizations and movements. Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter and Eleanor Roosevelt to the long list of distinguished conference participants. In 1936 Herbert Fisk Johnson, grandson of the founder of SC Johnson & Son, Inc. Hired Frank LLoyd Wright to design an new administration building for his company in Racine, Wisconsin. Soon after, he commissioned Wright to build him a home on nearby farmland. Wingspread is configured in wings, which fan out like a pinwheel from the central dome. Each wing is a "zone"; the master bedroom wing, children's wing, kitchen wing, and guest/garage wing. The arrangement of the wings allows nearly every room easy access to a patio or balcony. |
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Prairie Architects, Inc. -- 103 South Third Street -- Fairfield, Iowa 52556 |