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Hillside Home Building
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The first building built for the Hillside Home School, 4 Miles from Spring Green. Exterior view of the Hillside Home Building, a Shingle Style building, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1887 for his aunts, Jane and Ellen Lloyd Jones. It was used as a dormitory and library. Wright had the building demolished in 1950.
circa 1890-1899
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Loading Corn into Silo
circa 1890-1899
The barn in the foreground, left, is the school barn for the Hillside Home School (which was run by Frank Lloyd Wright's aunts & Enos Lloyd Jones sisters, Jennie & Nell Lloyd Jones). The windmill t...
Enos L. Jones Farm
1903
View down hill of the Enos Lloyd Jones farm with Hillside Home School and Romeo and Juliet in the background.
Ellen Lloyd Jones and Jane Lloyd Jones
Cyanotype of sisters Ellen Lloyd Jones (left) and Jane Lloyd Jones (right) founders and administrators of Hillside Home School. The women are the aunts of architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
People on Sled
circa 1890-1899
Elevated view of a group of people posing on and around horse-drawn sleds. There is a man on the porch of the building in the background.
Hillside Home Building
1915
The first building built for the Hillside Home School, 4 Miles from Spring Green. Exterior view of the Hillside Home Building, a Shingle Style building, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1887 for h...
Hillside Home Building
The first building built for the Hillside Home School, 4 Miles from Spring Green. Exterior view of the Hillside Home Building, a Shingle Style building, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1887 for h...
