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==Preservation==
In 1940, Frank Lloyd Wright, his third wife [[Olgivanna Lloyd Wright|Olgivanna]], and his son-in-law [[William Wesley Peters]] formed the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.<ref name="Van Goethem 1967" /> Wright added a third story above the second-story bedrooms and first-story living spaces in 1943, though this ended up weakening the original house's frame.<ref name="Johnson 2008" /><ref name="Martell 2008" /> The Hillside School building caught fire in April 1952,<ref name="Hesselberg g050">{{cite web |last=Hesselberg |first=George |date=November 22, 2024 |title=Collection of Frank Lloyd Wright's estate photos will stay together in sale to historical society |url=https://madison.com/entertainment/arts_and_theatre/collection-of-frank-lloyd-wrights-estate-photos-will-stay-together-in-sale-to-historical-society/article_4d8d2ef2-468b-11e0-b5bd-001cc4c03286.html |access-date=December 1, 2024 |website=Wisconsin State Journal}}</ref><ref name="NYT 1952 i423">{{cite web |date=April 27, 1952 |title=Architecture Site Burns; Grass Fire Shifts to Wisconsin School of Frank Lloyd Wright |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1952/04/27/archives/architecture-site-burns-grass-fire-shifts-to-wisconsin-school-of.html |access-date=December 1, 2024 |website=The New York Times}}</ref> and the theater and dining room in that building were subsequently rebuilt.<ref name="Hesselberg g050" /><ref name="Fixsen 2024">{{cite web |last=Fixsen |first=Anna |date=June 14, 2024 |title=A 'Mona Lisa' of Frank Lloyd Wright Design Is Back in Business |url=https://www.elledecor.com/life-culture/a61100937/frank-lloyd-wright-hillside-theater-taliesin/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240614173645/https://www.elledecor.com/life-culture/a61100937/frank-lloyd-wright-hillside-theater-taliesin/ |archive-date=June 14, 2024 |access-date=November 28, 2024 |website=ELLE Decor}}</ref> Upon Wright's death on April 9, 1959,
When the group spent two summers in [[Switzerland]], rumors started that they were planning on selling the house to [[S. C. Johnson]], a former Wright client. Instead, the fellowship sold a surrounding piece of land to a developer associated with the company, intending to develop a tourist complex.<ref name="Van Goethem 1967"/> The {{convert|3000|acre|adj=on}} resort included an eighteen-hole golf course, restaurant, and a visitor center.<ref>{{cite news |title=Spring Green Recreational Plan Unveiled |via=Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1183166/ |work=[[The Daily Telegram]] |agency=[[United Press International]] |date=July 18, 1966 |access-date=August 14, 2014 |page=11 |archive-date=November 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211109104730/https://www.newspapers.com/missing.php |url-status=live}}</ref>
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According to the ''[[Wisconsin State Journal]]'', Taliesin's preservation was "fraught with epic difficulties", because Wright never thought of it as a series of buildings with a long-term future.<ref name="Martell 2008" /> The studio wing's restoration was completed in August 2000 at a cost of $400,000, three-fourths of which was covered from insurance payouts; private donors paid the rest of the cost.<ref name="Saemann 2000" /> By 2002, the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation estimated that it might cost up to $60 million to refurbish the Taliesin complex.<ref name="The Sheboygan Press 2002" /> At the time, workers were about to stabilize the hill under the house,<ref name="The Sheboygan Press 2002">{{Cite news |date=November 11, 2002 |title=Frank Lloyd Wright's home deteriorating |via=Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sheboygan-press-frank-lloyd-wrights/159926222/ |access-date=November 28, 2024 |work=The Sheboygan Press |pages=3 |agency=Associated Press}}</ref><ref name="Auer 2002">{{Cite news |last=Auer |first=James |date=December 29, 2002 |title=Wright's grand house at risk ; Taliesin: In Spring Green, Wis., a house that stands for the great American architect the way Monticello stands for Thomas Jefferson, says a Harvard professor, is crumbling. |work=The Baltimore Sun |page=8L |issn=1930-8965 |id={{pq|406537968}}}}</ref> as the hillside was causing Taliesin's walls to slant and its walkways to crack.<ref name="Chicago Tribune 2002 b827" /><ref name="Auer 2002" /> To prevent further water damage, [[tarpaulin]]s had been placed on the ground as an emergency measure.<ref name="Chicago Tribune 2002 b827" /> TPI had issues raising money due to a weakening of the local economy,<ref name="Bromley 2002" /><ref name="Auer 2002" /><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Millionis |first=Allison |date=Sep 2005 |title=Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation slowly recovering from difficult times |work=Architectural Record |page=40 |volume=193 |issue=9 |id={{pq|222105848}}}}</ref> and many of the complex's structural issues were not readily visible to the public, posing further fundraising difficulties.<ref name="Bromley 2002" /> Preservationists predicted that the estate would be irreversibly damaged if it were not repaired within five to ten years.<ref name="Chicago Tribune 2002 b827" />
A $900,000 project to improve Taliesin's drainage system was completed in 2004.<ref name="Wisconsin State Journal 2005" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Nathans |first=Aaron |date=May 26, 2004 |title=Taliesin high and dry after revamp |via=Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-capital-times-taliesin-high-and-dry/159938408/ |access-date=November 29, 2024 |work=The Capital Times |pages=1C, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-capital-times-taliesin-high-and-dry/159938440/ 12C]}}</ref> The cost of the restoration had increased to $67 million by 2005, of which the main house alone was estimated to cost $26 million.<ref name="McCrea 2005">{{Cite news |last=McCrea |first=Ron |date=April 4, 2005 |title=Wright Way ; Taliesin Restorers Ride Out Foundation's Storm |work=The Capital Times |page=1A |id={{pq|395303950}}}}</ref> The same year, businessman [[T. Denny Sanford]] donated $425,000 for Taliesin's restoration. These funds, which were matched by part of the Save America's Treasures grant, were used to pay for further repairs to the roof, as well as planning for future repairs.<ref name="Wisconsin State Journal 2005">{{Cite news |date=June 26, 2005 |title=Banker Gives $425,000 for Taliesin; It's the Biggest Cash Donation the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Has Ever Received |via=Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/wisconsin-state-journal-banker-gives-42/159938503/ |access-date=November 28, 2024 |work=Wisconsin State Journal |page=D13 |id={{Pq|391384258}} |agency=Associated Press}}</ref> There were also plans to replace a bridge carrying Taliesin's driveway across a creek.<ref name="McCrea 2005" /> In 2006, the [[Jeffris Family Foundation]] agreed to fund 25% of Tan-y-Deri's restoration, which at the time was estimated to cost $828,000.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Morgan |first=Terry |date=November 26, 2006 |title=Wright's Tan-y-deri slated for rehab |via=Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/wisconsin-state-journal-wrights-tan-y-d/159939353/ |access-date=November 29, 2024 |work=Wisconsin State Journal |pages=27}}</ref> Over $11 million was spent on the rehabilitation of Taliesin between 1988 and 2008.<ref name="Martell 2008">{{cite news |last=Martell |first=Chris |date=December 8, 2008 |title=Taliesin Restoration Fraught with Epic Difficulties |url=http://www.madison.com/wsj/topstories/317388 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081210053026/http://www.madison.com/wsj/topstories/317388 |archive-date=December 10, 2008 |access-date=October 18, 2013 |work=Wisconsin State Journal |id={{Pq|391548955}}}}</ref> Financing renovations was stull challenging because of lower-than expected attendance.<ref>{{cite news |title=Restoring Wright: The Difficult Task of Preserving Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin |url=http://www.economist.com/node/18276004?story_id=18276004&fsrc=rss |newspaper=[[The Economist]] |date=May 3, 2011 |access-date=August 14, 2014 |archive-date=August 14, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140814232756/http://www.economist.com/node/18276004?story_id=18276004&fsrc=rss |url-status=live}}</ref> The ''Wisconsin State Journal'' reported in 2009 that, despite increased attendance over the preceding two years, TPI still needed to raise $50 million to restore the rest of the complex.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Antlfinger |first=Carrie |date=March 22, 2009 |title=Attendance Turns at Taliesins |via=Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/wisconsin-state-journal-attendance-turns/159966304/ |access-date=November 29, 2024 |work=Wisconsin State Journal |pages=13 |agency=Associated Press}}</ref> TPI also began reinforcing the house's structure, which had been undermined by the weight of the third-story guestrooms.<ref name="Martell 2008" /> The [[World Monuments Fund]] (WMF) added Taliesin to its [[2010 World Monuments Watch]] to bring attention to the complex's remaining structural issues.<ref name="Fazzare g306">{{cite web |last=Fazzare |first=Elizabeth |date=October 9, 2013 |title=Culture at Risk: World Monuments Fund Watch List Includes Palisades, FLW's Taliesin |url=https://www.archpaper.com/2013/10/culture-at-risk-world-monuments-fund-watch-list-includes-palisades-fllws-taliesin/ |access-date=December 1, 2024 |website=The Architect’s Newspaper |archive-date=April 21, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240421234317/https://www.archpaper.com/2013/10/culture-at-risk-world-monuments-fund-watch-list-includes-palisades-fllws-taliesin/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Pogrebin |first=Robin |date=August 15, 2016 |title=2010 World Monuments Watch Includes Sites From New Orleans to Bhutan |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/2010-world-monuments-watch-includes-sites-from-new-orleans-to-bhutan/ |access-date=December 1, 2024 |website=ArtsBeat}}</ref>
By the early 2010s, workers had begun repairing the house's foundation and lower level.<ref name="n160100586" /> The house was still open to the public, albeit only for guided tours;<ref name="Solomon w151">{{cite web |last=Solomon |first=Deborah |date=October 28, 2011 |title=Touring Wright Buildings in Wisconsin |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/travel/touring-wright-buildings-in-wisconsin.html |access-date=December 1, 2024 |website=The New York Times}}</ref> there were eight separate kinds of tours because of Taliesin's wide-ranging history and scope.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2013-05-01 |title=Wright's Taliesin open for season |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-reedsburg-times-press-wrights-talie/160111491/ |access-date=2024-12-01 |work=The Reedsburg Times-Press |pages=6}}</ref> To celebrate Taliesin's centennial, TPI hosted a series of events in 2011.<ref name="n160100586" /><ref>{{cite web |last=Anderson |first=Carla |date=May 1, 2011 |title=Taliesin House opens doors to Wright’s life |url=https://www.columbiatribune.com/story/entertainment/human-interest/2011/05/01/taliesin-house-opens-doors-to/21427429007/ |access-date=December 1, 2024 |website=Columbia Daily Tribune |postscript=none}}; {{cite web |last=McKnight |first=Jenna M. |date=April 22, 2011 |title=Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin Celebrates 100 Years |url=https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/2190-frank-lloyd-wright-s-taliesin-celebrates-100-years |access-date=December 1, 2024 |website=Architectural Record}}</ref> The complex remained in danger of deterioration, prompting the WMF to add Taliesin to its [[2014 World Monuments Watch]].<ref name="Fazzare g306" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=2013-11-09 |title=Taliesin added to World Watch List |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/wisconsin-dells-events-taliesin-added-to/160110605/ |access-date=2024-12-01 |work=Wisconsin Dells Events |pages=14}}</ref> In the mid-2010s, preservationists also began restoring Taliesin's gardens to their 1959 appearance. This project included adding hollyhocks and rearranging orchards to Wright's original specifications.<ref>{{cite web |last=Peregoy |first=Beau |date=May 31, 2015 |title=Restoring the Gardens at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin |url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/frank-lloyd-wright-taliesin-garden-restoration |access-date=December 1, 2024 |website=Architectural Digest |archive-date=December 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241201215231/https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/frank-lloyd-wright-taliesin-garden-restoration |url-status=live }}</ref> Additionally, to attract visitors to Taliesin and other Wright–designed sites in Wisconsin, state legislators proposed giving money to the [[Wisconsin Department of Tourism]] for the installation of road signs promoting these sites.<ref name="p1694603462">{{Cite news |last=Strebel |first=Erika |date=2 July 2015 |title=Frank Lloyd Wright buildings could get more exposure |work=The Daily Reporter |id={{pq|1694603462}}}}</ref> Taliesin was subsequently included on the Frank Lloyd Wright Trail, which was established in 2017.<ref>{{cite web |last=Rackl |first=Lori |date=May 2, 2017 |title=Hitting the highlights on Wisconsin’s new 200-mile Frank Lloyd Wright trail |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2017/05/02/hitting-the-highlights-on-wisconsins-new-200-mile-frank-lloyd-wright-trail/ |access-date=December 3, 2024 |website=Chicago Tribune |postscript=none}}; {{cite web |last=Lewis |first=Chelsey |date=May 12, 2017 |title=New 200-mile Frank Lloyd Wright Trail showcases the architect's diverse works in his home state |url=https://www.jsonline.com/story/travel/wisconsin/day-out/2017/05/12/new-200-mile-frank-lloyd-wright-trail-showcases-architects-diverse-works-his-home-state/101461878/ |access-date=December 3, 2024 |website=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel}}</ref>
In 2018, Taliesin received a $320,000 grant for the Hillside theater's restoration through the Save America's Treasures program; the project included improving drainage, upgrading mechanical systems, and adding rooms to the basement. This project was initially planned to cost $867,000 and take two years.<ref name="AP 2018 y836">{{cite web |date=October 7, 2018 |title=Frank Lloyd Wright Wisconsin theater to be restored |url=https://apnews.com/general-news-d45cd7d47da74247b174b7d7c0f41f20 |access-date=December 1, 2024 |work=AP News |agency=Associated Press}}</ref> The theater did not reopen until 2024, and its renovation ultimately cost $1.1 million.<ref name="Fixsen 2024" /><ref name="McLaughlin 2024" /><ref name="Adams 2024" /> Workers also restored Taliesin's Midway Barn in the 2020s.<ref>{{cite web |last=Hickman |first=Matt |date=August 16, 2022 |title=Major preservation work progresses at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin and Taliesin West |url=https://www.archpaper.com/2022/08/preservation-work-progresses-frank-lloyd-wright-taliesin-taliesin-west/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240519171419/https://www.archpaper.com/2022/08/preservation-work-progresses-frank-lloyd-wright-taliesin-taliesin-west/ |archive-date=May 19, 2024 |access-date=November 27, 2024 |website=The Architect's Newspaper}}</ref>
=== Visitation ===
TPI provides tours from May 1 through October 31 of each year
== Reception ==
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