I hopped on an electric bike for a 20 minute ride to the historical Frank Lloyd Wright Unitarian Universalist meeting house in Madison. The guided tour was wonderful and the best story was about how it was built. Frank LLoyd Wright was a member of the church so they could afford the architect but not his plans. The church members had to carry the stones from the quarry to the church by themselves, working every weekend for six months. At the time the church membership was 35 families.
Wright designed all the furniture and supplied his own collection of Japanese wood block prints. After this was built, membership grew to the current 1400 families. And they had to build a bigger adjacent building, which is in the style of Frank Lloyd Wright but not his work. I went to high holiday services in the adjacent building, which also was very beautiful.
The tour guide said (and I believe) that this church design changed the look for all modern churches in America. See what you think.
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