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cataloged collection.
    The Frank Lloyd Wright Archives are also housed at Taliesin West. Maintained by the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, the archives include fine, decorative, and ethnographic arts, Wright designed furniture and decorative pieces, historic artifacts, textiles, reference and rare book libraries, and other materials critical to the interpretation of his life and work. [31]
    The Foundation also maintains a list of about 90 Frank Lloyd Wright homes and buildings that are open to the public. The archives maintain an independent website with more detailed information about the location of the buildings, and what is unique about each one. Histories of the owners who contracted Wright to build their homes are also included.
    Among them is the B. Harley Bradley House, designed by Wright in 1900. The Bradley House, located just south of Chicago in Kankakee, represents the beginning of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Prairie School period. [32] The Bradley House website includes a century-long chronological account of who owned the house and what it was used for, how it was renovated over the years, and how it is now preserved.

    The Bradley House
    Hollyhock House is among the structures listed. Part of the Barnsdall Art Park today, Hollyhock House is still at the heart of the arts, and it has recently reopened to the public. Perhaps in keeping with Frank Lloyd Wright’s keen interest in new innovations in the arts, Houzz, a home remodeling and design website, has created a digital tour of Hollyhock House using drone technology.
    The Foundation’s website includes photos of Wright’s project that no longer exist, along with detailed information about them. A photo of the Larkin Company Administration Building is included, which Wright said, in his autobiography, represents “a genuine expression of power directly applied to purpose, in the same sense that the ocean liner, the plane, or the car is so.”
    When Sullivan, Wright’s old friend and former employer, died, Wright said, “no monument is ever more than a monument to those who erect it.” Elsewhere he said that “monuments are made by those who, voluntarily or not, never did anything but betray the thing the great man they would honor loved most, those who were 'charitable' when he was in need; officious when he died. May hell hold them all!”
    When he died in Phoenix, Ariz., at the age of 91, Wright's body was returned to Taliesin II in Wisconsin for burial. His grave was marked with a rough-hewn stone marker. Eventually, his remains were moved to Arizona when Ogilvanna passed away.

    A picture of Wright at the White House near the end of his life