January 2024 | Advocacy News

Madison and the World Heritage

Image: Herbert and Katherine Jacobs First House, from Wikimedia Commons, 7398383968

With the inclusion in 2019 of the First Jacobs House in the Westmorland neighborhood of Madison in The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright serial site, our city has become home to a property inscribed on the World Heritage List. This house is significant due to the fact that it is considered the first of the series of Usonian houses designed by Wright, which were intended to be more affordable than the homes he had generally designed up to that point for wealthy clients. In our January Advocacy News, Charles Horton briefly describes what the World Heritage is, the process by which the Jacobs I House was deemed worthy of this honor, and what effects this may have on the property and on Madison in general.