After a year of scandal and self-declared exile in Europe, Wright returned to his native Wisconsin in 1911. ... Taliesin’s floor plan used the dynamic asymmetry of the earlier Prairie houses.

Taliesin, the 800-acre estate near Spring Green, ... The open floor plan concept, ... The architect spent most of his 70-year career in the Chicago area and Wisconsin, his birthplace.

Of all the interesting sights in and around Madison, Wisc. — and there are many — perhaps none is quite as enthralling as Frank Lloyd Wright’s famed winter home, Taliesin.