Hasta La Ideas

Some interesting ongoing dramatics at one of the two grave sites for Frank Lloyd Wright. Back in May, at his original resting place, at Taliesin in Wisconsin (his body was later moved to the other Taliesin in Arizona), architect and Wright student John Ottenheimer had secretly snuck in and placed a gravestone for Mamah Borthwick, Wright’s longtime mistress who was murdered in the area. The family found the stone almost immediately and demanded that it be removed. Now Ottenheimer, who also designed Wright’s original grave, is saying that he doesn’t want it back, that the family should hold on to it until the small marker memorializing Borthwick needs to be replaced or they decide to follow his beliefs. Here’s a bit:

“I really think, given time, the cemetery board will figure out something, they will find a place. Another ten or twenty or thirty years, the (existing) stone will be totally unreadable,” he said. “I think the best place for it now would be in the stonework at Taliesin. It’s a memorial of someone, and Taliesin was where she was killed, and people forget Taliesin was built for her.”

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