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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.


Conference Center
Prairie Architects, Inc. -- 103 South Third Street -- Fairfield, Iowa 52556