Our house is on a dead-end street on Madison's near-west side, on a double-lot which backs onto the woods of Hoyt Park. It was designed in 1961 by Wes Peters, Frank Lloyd Wright's first apprentice at Taliesin (and after FLW died in 1959, Taliesen's chief architect), for Nicole and Walter Plaut (a dancer and a zoologist). Local architects had thought the property too hilly to build on, but Peters, an engineer as well as an architect--and one who loved bridges and ships--was up to the job. The house, except for the screen porch, was completed in 1963, and the porch was completed about 16 years later. In 2002 Tracy and Mark bought the house. Minor renovations were by Peter Rott, an architect who as a student at Taliesen, had worked with Wes Peters in the 1970s.