AT THE DON LOVENESS HOUSE, STILLWATER, MINNESOTA, JUNE 1958 Bernard Pyron At left in the photo, Don Loveness, Center Two Loveness Daughters, At Right, Bruce Radde, Gail Pyron and Bernard Pyron Bruce Radde, Gail Pyron and I were guests at dinner in the Frank Lloyd Wright Don Loveness House near. Stillwater, Minnesota in June of 1958. After leaving Madison earlier that day We drove into eastern Minnesota from Wisconsin late in an afternoon of June 1958. The Don Loveness house was out in the country a bit, and according to an online article it was on 20 acres. In our 1953 Mercury we pulled up not far from the house and Don Loveness came out to talk to us - three University of Wisconsin students. After a while he was convinced we were what we said we were - Wright hunters - and invited us into the house. We spent the night there and ate with them, and the next morning helped them wash the glass of the living room.. The Don Loveness house is the only Wright building I have slept in. I have eaten with the Fellowship at the Hillside dining room, in the late fifties when Wright was still alive and around someplace at Hillside or Taliesin that day.. For my wife and I eating in the Don Loveness house was our second experience in eating in a Wright place. Once when we were at Taliesin I was talking about the Bach contata "Ich habe Hunger," when an apprentice invited us to dinner with the Fellowship at Hillside. If I remember right, Brude Rade said he had talked to Wright once. I walked up to Wright and some apprentices around a drafting table at Hillside in September of 1957 and talked to Wright about photograping some of his floor plans and perspective drawings of his houses since 1949. Then in 1958 when I wanted to photograph more plans and drawings, Gene Masselink, Wright's Secretary, had me make an official appointment to talk to Wright. We spent about an hour with him. I showed him color 35mm slides and black and white photos of his recent houses, mostly in the Midwest, that I had photographed. At the end Mrs Wright appeared and called Wright away. Before he left, he shook hands with my wife and I at the same time. Wright was very approachable, and not aloof at all. Bruce Radde, myself and my wife Gail became friends because Bruce had learned much about Wright from John Kienitz. Bruce went with us to see various Wright houses in the Midwest, including that trip into Minnesota where we arrived at about dark in June of 1958 in our 1953 Mercury. Bruce Radde was a graduate student at Wisconsin in the late fifties - in political science. But he obtained a Ph.D. in art history from Berkeley and for years was a professor in art history at San Jose State University. Frank Lloyd Wright's Work in California Front Cover Bruce F. Radde University of California, 1967 Image may contain: 3 people, people sitting and indoor

AT THE DON LOVENESS HOUSE, STILLWATER, MINNESOTA, JUNE 1958
Bernard Pyron
At left in the photo, Don Loveness, Center Two Loveness Daughters, At Right, Bruce Radde, Gail Pyron and Bernard Pyron
Bruce Radde, Gail Pyron and I were guests at dinner in the Frank Lloyd Wright Don Loveness House near. Stillwater, Minnesota in June of 1958. After leaving Madison earlier that day We drove into eastern Minnesota from Wisconsin late in an afternoon of June 1958. The Don Loveness house was out in the country a bit, and according to an online article it was on 20 acres. In our 1953 Mercury we pulled up not far from the house and Don Loveness came out to talk to us - three University of Wisconsin students. After a while he was convinced we were what we said we were - Wright hunters - and invited us into the house. We spent the night there and ate with them, and the next morning helped them wash the glass of the living room..

The Don Loveness house is the only Wright building I have slept in. I have eaten with the Fellowship at the Hillside dining room, in the late fifties when Wright was still alive and around someplace at Hillside or Taliesin that day..
For my wife and I eating in the Don Loveness house was our second experience in eating in a Wright place. Once when we were at Taliesin I was talking about the Bach contata "Ich habe Hunger," when an apprentice invited us to dinner with the Fellowship at Hillside.
If I remember right, Brude Rade said he had talked to Wright once. I walked up to Wright and some apprentices around a drafting table at Hillside in September of 1957 and talked to Wright about photograping some of his floor plans and perspective drawings of his houses since 1949. Then in 1958 when I wanted to photograph more plans and drawings, Gene Masselink, Wright's Secretary, had me make an official appointment to talk to Wright. We spent about an hour with him. I showed him color 35mm slides and black and white photos of his recent houses, mostly in the Midwest, that I had photographed. At the end Mrs Wright appeared and called Wright away. Before he left, he shook hands with my wife and I at the same time. Wright was very approachable, and not aloof at all.
Bruce Radde, myself and my wife Gail became friends because Bruce had
learned much about Wright from John Kienitz. Bruce went with us to
see various Wright houses in the Midwest, including that trip into
Minnesota where we arrived at about dark in June of 1958 in our 1953 Mercury.
Bruce Radde was a graduate student at Wisconsin in the late fifties -
in political science.
But he obtained a Ph.D. in art history from Berkeley and for years was
a professor in art history at San Jose State University.
Frank Lloyd Wright's Work in California
Front Cover
Bruce F. Radde
University of California, 1967