Best Frank Lloyd Wright Podcasts (2024)

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Murder At Taliesin (Frank Lloyd Wright) 1:03:03

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The average person probably doesn’t know the name of too many architects. It’s not usually something that easily comes to mind, unless you’re an architecture or history buff, but there is one name that most will recognize – Frank Lloyd Wright. On August 15, 1914, one home became a scene of horror when a grisly murder spree claimed the lives of Wrig…

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The Mystery and Crimes of Pearl O’Loughlin 1:21:50

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As Peal handed the rice around the table, Douglas reached for the bowl, but Pearl quickly moved it out of his reach. “You’ve got enough on your plate,” she told the little boy. She pushed it past him and placed it in front of her stepdaughter, Leona. She knew that rice was one of the little girl’s favorite foods. “There you are, dear,” Pearl smiled…

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The House On Ridge Avenue 57:59

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For decades, stories circulated about the “most haunted house in America.” And the whispers told of bizarre murders, gruesome deaths, human experimentation, and visits to the house inspired not only horror stories but even a great inventor’s fascination with death and the afterworld. If any home in the country deserved the moniker of America’s most…

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Maniac: Insanity & Tragedy in South Pasadena 1:02:29

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In 1940, a principal snapped and went on a shooting spree at his Southern California junior high school. Who or what was to blame? Sources: Barer, Burl and Frank Giradot Jr.. A Taste For Murder (Denver: Wildblue Press, 2016). Ban, Thomas A. “Bromides” International Network for the History of Neuropsychopharmacology. 24 October 2013. https://inhn.or…

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The Collaboration War Chest: How Networks Drive Innovation 38:11

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Welcome to the Brick & Wonder podcast, where we delve into the art and science of collaboration within the built environment industry. Hosted by Drew Lang, founder of Brick & Wonder, this podcast explores the stories and strategies behind successful collaborations that drive innovation and shape the built world around us. In this episode with spoke…

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Episode 5: Hartford Circus Fire Survivor Nancy Spada Shares Her Story 39:28

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On July 6, 1944 7,000 people attended the afternoon performance of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Hartford. Shortly after the performance started, a fire broke out and quickly engulfed the entire big top, taking the lives of at least 167 people and injuring over 700. The tragedy remains the deadliest disaster ever recorded in Conn…

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Death Came For Dongo: A Massacre in Old Mexico 1:01:58

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In October of 1789, a search for the owner of an abandoned carriage led to a gruesome discovery in the home of a wealthy merchant. Don Joaquin Dongo and his entire household had been slaughtered. Within days, Mexico City officials had located, arrested, and publically executed the murderers in the same plaza where laborers worked to unearth Aztec r…

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The Murder Of Nell Cropsey 1:16:05

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On the night of November 20, 1901, a young North Carolina woman named Nell Cropsey vanished from her family’s home in Elizabeth City. After a frantic search that lasted more than a month, Nell’s body was discovered floating in a nearby river. She had been brutally murdered – but by who? Check out our updated website and sign up for our newsletter a…

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Killer at the Knickerbocker Part II: Roland Molineux & the Great Poison Mystery 55:50

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The Great Poison Mystery began in 1898 after two people were killed by poison sent to them by mail. The packages were eventually traced back to the ritzy Knickerbocker Athletic Club, and its secretary, the son of a Civil War hero. This is PART II of a two-part episode. Be sure to listen to episode 58 first! Sources: “How the Molineux Rule Permits C…

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The Third Win: A New Business Model for Lighting Design 37:21

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Welcome to the Brick & Wonder podcast, where we delve into the art and science of collaboration within the built environment industry. Hosted by Drew Lang, founder of Brick & Wonder, this podcast explores the stories and strategies behind successful collaborations that drive innovation and shape the built world around us. In this episode we spoke w…

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Murderous Matron At Morse Mill 1:35:49

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In August 1928, a woman from a tiny town in Missouri was arrested on two counts of first-degree murder. As you might imagine, the arrest of a 56-year-old woman with a reputation as a nurse and healer in the community where she’d lived wasn’t your run-of-the-mill news story in the late 1920s. It was a shocking event to people who lived in nearby St.…

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Killer at the Knickerbocker Part I: Roland Molineux & the Great Poison Mystery 51:22

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The Great Poison Mystery began in 1898 after two people were killed by poison sent to them by mail. The packages were eventually traced back to the ritzy Knickerbocker Athletic Club, and its secretary, the son of a Civil War hero. Sources: “How the Molineux Rule Permits Certain Witnesses in the Harvey Weinstein Trial.” NPR. Jonakait, Randolph N., “…

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Episode 4: The Hamilton Heights/West Hill Neighborhood 1:05:39

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Former West Hartford Mayor (and loyal TBT Listener) Scott Slifka joins Chuck Coursey for a discussion of the Hamilton Heights/West Hill Neighborhood, dating back to before the American Revolution.

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Murder At Wonderland (The Story Of Laurel Canyon And John Holmes) 1:32:40

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It was around 4:00 AM on the morning of July 1, 1981, when several shadowy figures slipped into a multi-level home on Wonderland Avenue in L.A.’s Laurel Canyon. Once inside, they surprised the five sleeping occupants and attacked them with metal pipes, beating them viciously... Check out our updated website and sign up for our newsletter at America…

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LIVE From The Haunted America Conference 2024 37:56

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Check out our updated website and sign up for our newsletter at AmericanHauntingsPodcast.com Want an episode every week, plus other awesome perks and discounts? Check out our Patreon page Find out merch at AmericanHauntingsClothing.com Follow us on Twitter @AmerHauntsPod, @TroyTaylor13, @CodyBeckSTL Follow us on Instagram @AmericanHauntingsPodcast,…

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A Passport to Usonia: Two perspectives on Frank Lloyd Wright’s suburbia 29:47

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In this episode we spoke with two people whose values and objectives aligned to create a book about the Usonia residential community. Usonia was a planned community and is now a national historic district located in Mount Pleasant, New York, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Michael Biondo is an architectural photographer who has extensively photogra…

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Red Hamilton's Last Hurrah 1:28:48

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There are stories, rumors, tall tales, and whispers that tell very different stories about the fate of Red Hamilton, John Dillinger's right-hand man for many a heist. There is speculation about where he died, when he actually died, and whether his ghost – or at least the ghost of the man buried in that grave – still haunts a house where someone bre…

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Of Fire and Blood: Massacre at Frank Lloyd Wright's Love Bungalow 1:16:56

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In the summer of 1914, a fire broke out at the love bungalow of Frank Lloyd Wright and his mistress Mamah Borthwick. When the smoke cleared, it became clear that a horrible massacre had taken place, leaving seven dead. Who wanted to kill everyone at Taliesin, and why? For Magic Mind's limited offer that gets you up to 48% off your first subscriptio…

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The Murder Mansion (The Murders Of Bruce And Darlene Rouse) 1:08:58

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It was June 6, 1980, in the normally quiet suburb of Libertyville, Illinois. Located in the heart of Lake County, it was one of the most affluent communities surrounding Chicago. The residents of Libertyville weren’t accustomed to violent crime – those kinds of things don’t happen here, they’d often say. Until they do. Check out our updated website…

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Destroying Angel: A Hollywood Mystery 1:07:00

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Two actors fled Hollywood for Salt Lake City in 1928. One was bludgeoned to death, and the other would call upon none other than Charlie Chaplin for help. As authorities scrambled to uncover what happened to the murdered Don Solovich, Hollywood’s most famous actors fought to keep their secrets safe. Before long, the tiny Utah town learned that Chap…

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Ep. 8 - "The Space In Which To Place Me" (2024) by Jeffrey Gibson 18:56

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For the final episode of season 1, Zach shares artist Jeffrey Gibson who creates a multidisciplinary and multidimensional exhibition called, "The Space In Which To Place Me," for the United States pavillion at the 60th Venice Biennale Art Exhibition this year. Zach had the chance to see the exhibition in person, a celebration of traditional indigen…

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Goat Castle 1:39:27

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A nightly ritual that was decades old on a night in August 1932 would come to a sudden and shocking end, while the legend of the "Wild Man and the Goat Woman" were just beginning. Check out our updated website and sign up for our newsletter at AmericanHauntingsPodcast.com Want an episode every week, plus other awesome perks and discounts? Check out…

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A Brooklyn Collaboration: Values-Driven Business in the Built Environment 28:26

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In this episode of Working Together we spoke with two people whose values and brands aligned in the construction of a Brooklyn condominium building 350 Butler Street. Bill Caleo is a real estate developer and the founder of the Brooklyn Home Company, and Rachelle Louis is the Luxe Business Development Lead at JennAir Appliances.…

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Bonus Chat: Venice Biennale, Order of the Third Bird, and Season 1 Winds Down 22:38

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Zach heads to Venice for the Biennale and an epic art tour, Claire talks about the Order of the Third Bird, and season 1 starts to wind down with our final espisode coming up!By Art Snap

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Horror In Good Hart 1:49:41

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The smell was overwhelming on that July day in 1968 as Monnie Bliss approached the cabin that his father Chauncey had built years earlier near the community of Good Hart, on the Lower Peninsula of Michigan’s Northwest Coast. And the murders that ended up being discovered in the strange cabin in the woods would be a mystery that has yet to solved. C…

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Woman in White: The Dictaphone Murder Trial 1:04:26

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In the summer of 1914, someone shot through the window of a Long Island doctor’s office, killing a woman inside. When investigators found a dictaphone installed inside the office, they began to suspect the doctor’s jealous wife, who claimed to have been upstairs the evening in question. When the wife’s alibi changed her testimony, Americans had to …

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Episode 3: Luna Park 47:20

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During the early 1900s, Luna Park, an amusement park inspired by New York's Coney Island, operated on what is now the site of Colt Manufacturing on New Park Avenue. Join Chuck and his guest Gene Leach, former Chair of Trinity College's History Department, as they discuss the short life of West Hartford's Luna Park.…

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Taken From Home (The "Lipstick Killer" And The Murder Of Suzanne Degnan) 1:49:05

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January in Chicago was always brutal. The winter of 1946 was no different. Three murders with one kidnapping in the same area. Were they all the work of one killer? Or was an "innocent" man put away for life while a more brutal killer was still on the loose, living amongst us...? Check out our updated website and sign up for our newsletter at Ameri…

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Ep. 7 - "Fox Games" (1989) by Sandy Skoglund 15:18

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This episode’s work of art was Claire’s pick, by her perhaps all-time favorite artist, Sandy Skoglund, called "Fox Games" (1989). Skoglund is an American born installation artist and photographer, currently teaching at Rutgers University while actively creating and exhibiting around the world. Her Installation Art delights lovers of Pop Art and Sur…

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Hell Broke Loose: The Servant Girl Killer 1:07:47

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Before Jack the Ripper, there was the Servant Girl Annihilator. The man who stalked Austin, Texas, in 1885, preying upon the city’s black servant girls. When he targeted two white women in a shocking Christmas Eve attack, all hell broke loose. Who was this servant girl killer, and was he the same man that terrorized London in 1888? Sources: Gallowa…

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Bonus Chat: Faith Ringgold, Followup on Frank Lloyd Wright, and Environmental Conservation 14:16

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Zach and Claire check in with each other and chat about the legacy and passing of Faith Ringgold at 93, followup on the recent Frank Lloyd Wright episode, and even get into a little environmental conservation.By Art Snap

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Last Stand Of The Barker Gang 1:44:11

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There’s a house just outside the town of Ocklawaha, Florida, that stands as one of the most infamous locations in America’s gangland history. It was at this house where the last stand of the Barker gang took place and where Ma Barker and her son, Fred, battled it out with G-men before being shot to death. The violent and blood-soaked battle occurre…

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Ep. 6 - "The Dinner Party" (1979) by Judy Chicago 15:33

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This week, we look at Judy Chicago’s iconic feminist work, “The Dinner Party” (1979), which debuted at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to both rave reviews and stark criticism. Laid out as a dinner party, the formal table is set for 39 distinguished guests complete with elaborate handmade runners and 3D ceramic plates. It’s a table celebrati…

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The Wallpaper Widow: The Murder of Mary Emsley (Part II) 51:20

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A widow is found brutally murdered in London's East End in the summer of 1860. Four decades later, Sherlock's creator, Arthur Conan Doyle was still trying and failing to solve the mystery. Can we do better than Sherlock Holmes? Sources: Doyle, Arthur Conan. "The Debatable Case of Mrs. Emsley." Strand Magazine. May, 1901. "JAMES MULLINS. Killing; mu…

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The Easter Sunday Massacre 1:23:31

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There was nothing unusual about that Easter Sunday in 1975. “How’s your Volkswagen, Jimmie?” Leonard asked him. James didn’t speak. He answered the question by shooting his brother, setting off a spiral of violence and rage that ended as the deadliest shooting spree to ever occur in a private home in America’s bloody history. One that left a grim a…

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Ep. 5 - "Fallingwater" (1938) by Frank Lloyd Wright 17:53

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It’s not a painting or a sculpture... but another form of art that deserves attention as we meander through the world of famous works of art together. In this episode, Claire brings Fallingwater, designed by the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright for the Kaufmann family in 1935, and constructed between 1936 - 1938. The woodland residence in the Ap…

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