Register to Tour Hillside
Join a special behind-the-scenes tour of the Hillside building and grounds at Taliesin!
A revolutionary design of Frank Lloyd Wright in 1902, Hillside was built on three levels to follow the natural slope of the hill as a boarding school for his two aunts, Jane and Ellen Lloyd Jones.
In the 1930s, it was expanded for the newly formed Taliesin Fellowship, a community that provided architectural training in a “learn by doing” approach. Hillside houses a theatre and a 5,000-square-foot drafting studio. This tour will provide a general overview of the building and its construction, then an exclusive look at the restoration work occurring in the Hillside Theatre.
Thank You to Our Tour Guides!
40-minute Tours will be led by members of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
Ryan Hewson
FLW Foundation
Director of Preservation
Floyd Hamblen
FLW Foundation
Steward & Resident
Kyle Dockery
FLW Foundation
Collections Coordinator
Adam Charles
FLW Foundation
Maintenance, Construction Manager
HILLSIDE TOUR REGISTRATION
REGISTRATION REQUIRED: Tours are free, but space is limited to 15 participants for mobility-enhanced tours, and 20 participants in all others. We ask that you register for one tour time below to ensure each tour is appropriately populated.
We welcome all guests regardless of mobility capabilities. Tours available for guests requesting special assistance. These tours are limited to 15 people per group and we ask that you register two weeks in advance in order to best accommodate. Please direct all questions related to mobility-enhanced tours to hongyan@wipreservation.org.
Friday, September 17
Tours will run approximately 40 minutes
* Mobility-enhanced tours offered at this time
Saturday, September 18
Tours will run approximately 40 minutes
* Mobility-enhanced tours offered at this time