image for illustration: Hillside Theatre by Marykeiran, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
The Hillside Theatre by Frank Lloyd Wright in Wisconsin has reopened following an extensive five-year restoration that addressed ‘significant structural and functional challenges’.
Dezeen writes:
Located on Taliesin, the Wisconsin estate Frank Lloyd Wright called home for nearly 50 years, the Hillside Theatre served as a multipurpose space since its 1903 inception and as a more formal ‘playhouse’ since 1932….
…Its most recent iteration consists of two banks of red theatre seating raised on stone steps angled towards one another to create a tight corner.
… Led by the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and Taliesin Preservation, a project to restore the theatre began in 2019…
The project received funding from National Park Service Save America’s Treasures program; the National Endowment for the Arts; the National Trust for Historic Preservation; the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, as well as private donors…
