SPRING GREEN

village, Sauk county, south-central Wisconsin, U.S. The village lies near the Wisconsin River, 35 miles (56 km) west-northwest of Madison. It originated in the 1860s as a shipping point for livestock and wheat and was incorporated in 1869. The place is, however, best known for its association with the architect Frank Lloyd Wright, who was born in 1867 at Richland Center, 20 miles (32 km) northwest. He chose Spring Green as the site for Taliesin, his home begun in 1911 and rebuilt after fires of 1914 and 1925. A building that hugs the hills on which it was constructed, it is now known as Taliesin East to differentiate it from Taliesin West, Wright's winter home in Scottsdale, Ariz. At Spring Green in 1933 Wright established the Taliesin Fellowship, his first architectural school for apprentices; the buildings now constitute the summer headquarters of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. A few miles south is another unusual architectural structureThe House on the Rock, designed by Alexander Jordan (a Wright disciple), 450 feet (140 m) above the Wisconsin River valley; the house winds spirally around the rock, and trees grow through the roof. The site is now surrounded by amusement attractions. Wright is buried in Spring Green. Pop. (1992 est.) 1,369.