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Taliesin is turning necks as the southwest Wisconsin town is home to Frank Lloyd Wright’s property and full of historic charm.

Channel3000 recently highlighted the Taliesin estate in the Driftless region of Wisconsin, which holds the history and life of Frank Lloyd Wright.

The 800 acre estate became a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1976 and is designated as a National Historic Landmark, Channel3000 reported.

“Wisconsin is home to so many historical treasures, and Taliesin is one of them,” Gov. Tony Evers said in a July 19 tweet. “A National Historic Landmark and part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Taliesin is worth a visit!"

Taliesin holds over 10 buildings from various eras of Wright’s life and career and is open to the public, according to Talieson Preservation. 

The buildings include The Valley, 1886 Unity Chapel, 1897 Romeo and Juliet Windmill, 1907 Tan-y-Deri Taliesin, 1911 Taliesin 1, 1914 Taliesin II, 1925 Taliesin III, 1932 Taliesin Fellowship, 1952 Midway Barn, 1955 Hillside Studio & Thester, 1967 Frank Lloyd Wright Visitor Center and the 1990 Taliesin Preservation.

After an electrical fire burned one of Wright’s Taliesin homes he wrote, “Taliesin lived wherever I stood! A figure crept forward from out the shadows to say this to me. And I believed what Olgivanna (Wright’s wife) said, ‘[T]aught by the building of Taliesin I and II, I made forty sheets of pencil studies for the building of Taliesin III, Taliesin’s radiant brow should come forth and shine again with a serenity unknown before,” according to Wright.

According to Channel3000, Taliesin offers family days, driftless landscape tours, one-hour tour, Food Artisan Immersion Program along with the Riverview Terrace Café, as well as summer camps for kids.