STORY AND PHOTO BY KAREN BOSSICK
A rare opportunity to tour the only Idaho building designed by world-renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright will be held on June 11.
That day the Hagerman Valley Historical Society will sponsor a tour of Teater’s Knoll, which sits on a cliff above the Snake River near Bliss.
The building was designed for Idaho artist Archie B. Teater and is the only artist studio Wright designed that was actually built.
Those who were able to tour the facility several years ago will find that there is even more to see this year, thanks to a lovely Japanese-style garden that the studio’s owner Henry Whiting created below the prow of the studio.
The tour is a fundraiser for the Hagerman Valley Historical Society’s new building fund. The museum, billed as “the biggest little museum in Idaho,” is a repository for artifacts from the valley’s past.
Tours will begin at the Hagerman Senior Center, 140 East Lake Street in Hagerman at four different times: 11 a.m. and 12:30, 2 and 3:15 p.m. Transportation will be provided to and from Teater’s Knoll and an Idaho homestyle dinner will be provided to all participants at the Hagerman Senior Center.
Tickets go on sale Sunday, May 1. Tickets are $80 for the general public and $65 for members of the Hagerman Valley Historical Society. Tickets may be purchased at hagermanmuseum.org.
Questions? Call Darlene Nemnich at 208-850-9996.