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The Preamble

Wisconsin’s Master Architect with Sharon McMahon

The Preamble

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.915.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, Sharon dives beyond the basics to talk about the life and career of a man with whom you may already be familiar: Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright’s legendary career spanned seventy years but his personal life is just as often talked about as his revolutionary building style. Learn a little more about his eccentricities, his love of fancy, expensive things, his scandalous romances, and even a word we use regularly today that didn’t exist before Frank made it up.

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0:00.0

Hello my friends always excited to have you with me and I'm going to give you a little

0:05.2

content warning right off the top this episode has some things that are very

0:10.0

interesting but are also about people who die and so this episode might not be

0:14.9

appropriate for young children just wanted to let you know put your headphones

0:18.8

on or listen to it when kids are not in the car so today I want to chat with you about a very famous, world famous, Wisconsin-night.

0:27.0

You undoubtedly know who this person is,

0:30.0

but I'm going to give you some brain tangles that you probably did not know. So let's dive in.

0:36.9

I'm Sharon McMahon and welcome to the Sharon Says So podcast.

0:42.9

All right I bet you know who world famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright is, right?

0:48.2

He designed over 1,100 buildings in his lifetime.

0:52.5

Almost 500 of them actually got made.

0:55.0

And that is a huge legacy to leave the architectural world.

0:59.0

Very few people get to say that they have revolutionized an entire field. That is such a rarity. that is a

1:04.0

such a rarity. Fun fact, there is a gas station designed by Frank Lloyd Wright near me.

1:10.0

And his projects ranged from very simple modest middle class homes to huge museums.

1:17.0

He designed at Guggenheim to massive skyscrapers and large hotels. He was a of

1:25.0

a new sort of school of architecture in many ways.

1:30.0

And you can actually look back to Frank Lloyd Wright's life before he was even born.

1:36.0

He was born in 1867, by the way, weird little eccentricity of Frank Lloyd Wright is that he constantly claimed that he was born two years

1:46.0

after he was actually born. So much so that it confused biographers, it confused people like

1:51.9

the New York Times when they were going to

1:53.4

print his obituary. So his father was a musician and a composer and a minister and

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