The Harry & Mary Scheig Learning Center opened the summer of 1996. The building was designed by Charles Montooth a Taliesin Architect in Spring Green, Wisconsin. Taliesin is Frank Lloyd Wright's Architectural Prairie School of Design which incorporates nature into the design. There is little separation from indoors to outdoors.

Outside Design Features

• Designed in classic Frank Lloyd Wright style, the building soars from the earth.
• Red-stained douglas fir exterior blends beautifully with the surrounding earth.
• The building is supported by a single span 78-foot steel I-beam running along the top of the building.
• Southern yellow pine is used extensively in Taliesin buildings because of its beautiful grain. It's harder than most pines.
• The water feature at the south end of the building is still another Taliesin signature element meant to bring the "outside in" and seem to take the "inside out".

Inside Design Features

• The mezzanine is constructed of architectural, laminated southern yellow pine.
• The mezzanine extends out to a cantilevered observation deck, an oft-used feature in Taliesin and Frank Lloyd Wright buildings. The  observation deck is canted a distance of 15 feet. Notice that there is no support for it outside.
• The yellow pine staircase (our tree house) winds tightly around three sides of the lift and up to the mezzanine.
• The railings along the mezzanine and stairway are specially designed of cedar and yellow pine.
• The lighting is indirect as much as possible, flooding the room with light from top to bottom.

The artist chose a wetlands theme to highlight the diversity and beauty found in Wisconsin's wetlands. Flora and fauna native to Wisconsin were used.

Birds and animals included are: Great Blue Heron, Osprey, Redwing Black Bird, the Banded Kingfisher, female Mallard Duck, Painted Turtles and the American Toad.

Please stop by to view the murals.