Why did Frank Lloyd Wright name his house Taliesin and where does the word Taliesin come from?
Taliesin is located in the valley settled by Frank Lloyd Wright’s Welsh maternal family, the Lloyd Joneses. The family gave several features of the valley around them names, and Wright continued the tradition in 1907 when he named the house he designed for his sister, Jane Porter, and her husband Andrew. This house is named “Tan-y-deri”, which is a Welsh word that means “under the oaks.” When Wright designed his own home in the valley in 1911, he gave it the Welsh name Taliesin, meaning “shining brow”. Frank Lloyd Wright placed Taliesin on the brow of a hill, leaving the crown, or top, open.
