SPRING HOUSE INSTITUTE
• To protect our visitors, volunteers and loved ones, SHI is suspending our 2nd Sunday Tours until further notice. We are taking reservations for personal tours after communicating with people who would like to visit on a personal tour. Thank you for your support since 2013. Take good care •
Photo courtesy of Seth Coffin, the first Friend of Spring House.
Eight Frank Lloyd Wright Sites
Inscribed on UNESCO World Heritage List July 7, 2019 representing his life's work!
Inscribed on UNESCO World Heritage List July 7, 2019 representing his life's work!
SPRING HOUSE INSTITUTE
is working to acquire, restore and complete
LEWIS SPRING HOUSE,
the ONLY private residence designed by
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
and built in FLORIDA,
for public and private uses.
We need YOUR help to do this.
is working to acquire, restore and complete
LEWIS SPRING HOUSE,
the ONLY private residence designed by
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
and built in FLORIDA,
for public and private uses.
We need YOUR help to do this.
HIGHLIGHTS OF 2020...
WINTERSTONE PRODUCTIONS
PRESENTS...
NEWS
APRIL 12, 2020
2nd Sunday Public Tours at SPRING HOUSE has suspended all tours until we feel we can safely resume them and under what conditions because of the new coronavirus. Thank you for your support since 2013.
MARCH 23, 2020!
4th Saturday SPRING HOUSE INSTITUTE has suspended workdays until we feel we can safely resume them and under what conditions because of the new coronavirus. Thank you for your support since 2013.
MARCH 8, 2020!
2nd Sunday Public Tours at SPRING HOUSE people visited from Jacksonville, FL; Pensacola, FL; Havana, FL; Yuma, AZ; Sydney, Australia; Rochester Hills, MI; Libertyville, IL; Lakeland, FL; Ft. Walton Beach, FL; Port St. Lucie, FL; and many good friends and neighbors from Tallahassee! Thank you for your support on this beautiful day!
FEBRUARY 22, 2020
4th Saturday SPRING HOUSE INSTITUTE had workday from 10 to one David came from Thomasville and we cleared a big patch of coral ardisia headed down the hill to the pond. We removed two wax leaf ligustrum that were keeping the sun away from a pretty cedar; probably a generation from the cedars George, George Edward and Van planted when the Lewises first moved to Spring House.
FEBRUARY 9, 2020!
2nd Sunday Continuous Public Tours at SPRING HOUSE –A beautiful day for our 2nd Sunday Tours on 2-9-2020! Thank you to our interesting and attentive visitorsfrom Lancaster, OH; Port St. Lucie, FL; Atlanta, GA; Concord, OH; Ft. Lauderdale, FL; Noblesville, IN; Terre Haute, IN; On The Road In America; Greenville, FL; and many friends and neighbors from Tallahassee! We appreciate your support of this historic preservation effort!
JANUARY 25, 2020
4th Saturday SPRING HOUSE INSTITUTE workday Frost and Elliot cut back the elephant ears that had gotten hit by two freezing nights and thankfully the leaves will come back; they were so huge and beautiful all of last year. They also loaded up a wheelbarrow and put new chips down on the terrace. Victoria weeded the pink muhly grass bed on the north side of the house. Thank you all for your help. We moved the wandering gentile back on the terrace which is like any weeding, it always has to be done. Thank you!
JANUARY 12, 2020!
2nd Sunday Public Tours at SPRING HOUSE Thank you to all of our great visitors today, our first tours of 2020! We so appreciate you who came out on this gray and humid day from Miami Beach, FL; Panacea, FL; Sopchoppy, FL; Crawfordville, FL; Alligator Point, FL; Goshen IN; Atlanta, GA; Odessa, FL; Thomasville, GA; Havana, GA; Bainbridge, GA; Los Angeles, CA; and friends and neighbors from Tallahassee! And thank you to our local paper, the Tallahassee Democrat for all the mentions in the TLH Calendar this week!
2nd Sunday Public Tours at SPRING HOUSE has suspended all tours until we feel we can safely resume them and under what conditions because of the new coronavirus. Thank you for your support since 2013.
MARCH 23, 2020!
4th Saturday SPRING HOUSE INSTITUTE has suspended workdays until we feel we can safely resume them and under what conditions because of the new coronavirus. Thank you for your support since 2013.
MARCH 8, 2020!
2nd Sunday Public Tours at SPRING HOUSE people visited from Jacksonville, FL; Pensacola, FL; Havana, FL; Yuma, AZ; Sydney, Australia; Rochester Hills, MI; Libertyville, IL; Lakeland, FL; Ft. Walton Beach, FL; Port St. Lucie, FL; and many good friends and neighbors from Tallahassee! Thank you for your support on this beautiful day!
FEBRUARY 22, 2020
4th Saturday SPRING HOUSE INSTITUTE had workday from 10 to one David came from Thomasville and we cleared a big patch of coral ardisia headed down the hill to the pond. We removed two wax leaf ligustrum that were keeping the sun away from a pretty cedar; probably a generation from the cedars George, George Edward and Van planted when the Lewises first moved to Spring House.
FEBRUARY 9, 2020!
2nd Sunday Continuous Public Tours at SPRING HOUSE –A beautiful day for our 2nd Sunday Tours on 2-9-2020! Thank you to our interesting and attentive visitorsfrom Lancaster, OH; Port St. Lucie, FL; Atlanta, GA; Concord, OH; Ft. Lauderdale, FL; Noblesville, IN; Terre Haute, IN; On The Road In America; Greenville, FL; and many friends and neighbors from Tallahassee! We appreciate your support of this historic preservation effort!
JANUARY 25, 2020
4th Saturday SPRING HOUSE INSTITUTE workday Frost and Elliot cut back the elephant ears that had gotten hit by two freezing nights and thankfully the leaves will come back; they were so huge and beautiful all of last year. They also loaded up a wheelbarrow and put new chips down on the terrace. Victoria weeded the pink muhly grass bed on the north side of the house. Thank you all for your help. We moved the wandering gentile back on the terrace which is like any weeding, it always has to be done. Thank you!
JANUARY 12, 2020!
2nd Sunday Public Tours at SPRING HOUSE Thank you to all of our great visitors today, our first tours of 2020! We so appreciate you who came out on this gray and humid day from Miami Beach, FL; Panacea, FL; Sopchoppy, FL; Crawfordville, FL; Alligator Point, FL; Goshen IN; Atlanta, GA; Odessa, FL; Thomasville, GA; Havana, GA; Bainbridge, GA; Los Angeles, CA; and friends and neighbors from Tallahassee! And thank you to our local paper, the Tallahassee Democrat for all the mentions in the TLH Calendar this week!
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