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Samuel and Nina Marcus House

American Craftsman architecture in WisconsinHouses completed in 1921Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in WisconsinNational Register of Historic Places in Sauk County, WisconsinUse mdy dates from August 2023
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241EastJeffersonSpringGreenWI
241EastJeffersonSpringGreenWI

The Samuel and Nina Marcus House is a historic house at 241 E. Jefferson Street in Spring Green, Wisconsin. The house was built in 1921 for Samuel Marcus, who managed a branch of his father's department store, and his wife Nina, a Chicago native who moved to Spring Green after marrying Samuel. Architect Morton L. Pereira gave the house an American Craftsman design, a popular early twentieth century style which emphasized simplicity and naturalism. The couple had lived in Los Angeles, where the style was especially popular, before moving to Spring Green; they chose Pereira as the architect due to his family's friendship with Nina's. The one-and-a-half story house features a stucco exterior, a projecting front bay with a recessed arched window, an arched side entrance porch, and a steep gable roof with overhanging eaves and exposed rafter tails. The Marcus family lived in the house until 1927, when financial difficulties caused them to sell the home and move into a converted apartment in the department store. The house is the only full example of the American Craftsman style in Spring Green.The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 16, 2018.

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Riverview Terrace Restaurant
Riverview Terrace Restaurant

The Riverview Terrace Restaurant, also known as The Spring Green Restaurant, is a building designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1953 near his Taliesin estate in Wisconsin. He purchased the land on which to build the restaurant as, "a wayside for tourists with a balcony over the river." Construction began the next year, with the roof being added by 1957. The building was incomplete when he died in 1959, but was purchased in 1966 by the Wisconsin River Development Corporation and completed the next year as The Spring Green restaurant. In 1968, Food Service Magazine had an article about the newly opened restaurant: ... [W]hen a restaurant is designed by such a giant in his profession as the late architect Frank Lloyd Wright, it's important to find out what makes it a thing of beauty—to analyze in detail the elements of its design and appointments in search of principles that can be applied to food service facilities elsewhere. No one in the past century has influenced architecture as an art and science more profoundly than Frank Lloyd Wright. Basic to his philosophy of "organic" architecture was the tenet that a building and its environment should be as one—that the structure, through proper blending of native materials and creation of appropriate linear features, should be in perfect harmony with its surroundings. "Organic architecture comes out of nature," Wright said in a Food Service Magazine interview shortly before he died. He believed that each detail of the architecture and interior should be related to the building's overall concept. Each design element should reflect the whole environment, as opposed to having each design component reflect a separate idea all its own. ... The Spring Green is a very subtle structure. It does not impose brash neon signs or harsh vertical lines upon an essentially horizontal rolling countryside. The structure is built, for the most part, only of those materials that come from the vital riverscape which is the site of the restaurant. Wright's disciple, William Wesley Peters ... observes, "The building and its forms arise from the use of natural materials to their specific properties. For example, the rich, buff-colored limestone was quarried only a few miles away. It was laid in great horizontal courses with long, thin, projecting ledges that symbolically represent the character and quality of the stone at the quarry."Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (first director of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives and director emeritus until his death in 2017) wrote that, "In 1993 the building converted to use as the Visitor Center for the Taliesin Buildings." As stated by Pfeiffer, the building has functioned as the Frank Lloyd Wright Visitor Center since 1994. It is owned and operated under the direction of Taliesin Preservation, the non-profit organization in Wisconsin that restores and preserves the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed buildings on the Taliesin estate. As a visitor center, the building is the starting point for tours of the Taliesin estate and houses a giftshop, restaurant (known as "The Riverview Terrace Cafe") and offices for Taliesin Preservation. The building is open during tourist season.