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In 1932, the Wrights established the Taliesin Fellowship. 56 apprentices came to Taliesin to study under the architect. They helped him develop the estate at a time when there were very few projects. Once he began Taliesin West, a winter home in Scottsdale, Arizona, in 1937, Wright and the fellowship "migrated" between the two homes each year.
One of the apprentices, William Wesley Peters.
Peters was an original apprentice beginning in 1932 and he remained at Taliesin until he died in 1991. In 1935 he married Wright's adopted daughter, Svetlana (who died in an automobile accident in 1946, along with their son Daniel). Peters raised their other son, Brandoch, on his own. Peters was later briefly married to Svetlana Alliluyeva, the youngest child and only daughter of Joseph Stalin, in a union arranged by Wright's widow, Peters's mother-in-law, and Fellowship matriarch Olgivanna Wright. The couple had a daughter, Olga (now Evans). (Wiki)
His role as Frank Lloyd Wright's right-hand man and collaborator was key to the success of the last 25 years of Wright's career. After Wright's death, he became chief architect of Taliesin Architects, designing over 120 buildings worldwide, many of them for prominent clients and with complex programs. Here are a few that we happened to see in Spring Green built years after Wrights death.
The M & I Bank by William Wesley Peters 1970. Wes Peters designed a distinctive, curvilinear limestone structure with an impressive interior fireplace for this bank in downtown Spring Green.
This is Spring Green Chamber of Commerce by William Wesley Peters 1975. Originally designed as the drive-up annex for the bank, Wes Peters repeated the dramatic round form used in that building in this small annex, which is now home to the Spring Green Chamber of Commerce.
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