Blueprint for Murder, and the Architecture of Grief

On a hot, sunny Saturday afternoon on the 15th of August 1914, in a house near Spring Green, Wisconsin one of the worst mass killings in the state’s history occurred when 7 people were axed to death, immolated, and the house they were in burnt down.

It was a case that on its own would have made headlines – but it wasn’t just any house that was burnt – it was the world-famous architectural treasure named Taliesin that was left in rubble, a house created by the internationally renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The victims were Wright’s partner Martha Borthwick, and two children, her 9-year-old Martha, and 11-year-old John. Also slain were gardener David Lindblom, draftsman Emil Brodell, builder Thomas Brunkner, and Bruckner’s 13-year-old son Ernest.

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Sources:

https://www.messynessychic.com/2018/05/01/murder-in-the-blueprints-of-frank-lloyd-wright/

https://www.americanhauntingsink.com/taliesin

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/28519/taliesin-tragedy

https://la.curbed.com/2015/10/28/9906764/sowden-house-george-hodel-black-dahlia

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/justice-story/wright-mare-massacre-frank-lloyd-home-article-1.1591522

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86086068/1912-01-04/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1912&index=0&rows=20&words=Frank+Lloyd+Wright&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=Wisconsin&date2=1912&proxtext=Frank+Lloyd+Wright&y=18&x=12&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1

https://murderpedia.org/male.C/c/carlton-julian.htm

https://drvitelli.typepad.com/providentia/2017/04/murder-at-taliesin.html

https://www.taliesinpreservation.org/

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