The Jester-Pfieffer House at Taliesin West

I visited the Jester-Pfeiffer House at Taliesin West on the morning of Sunday, February 8, 2026.  My visit to this beautiful house was part of an Andrew Pielage Photography Workshop at Taliesin West that weekend.  The Jester-Pfeiffer House is usually not available for visitation during normal tours and activities at Taliesin West, but Andrew got permission from the Taliesin West staff so that he could take our small workshop group to the house for a visit.  This house was built by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, longtime apprentice, archivist and close friend of Wright and his family.  When Pfeiffer decided to build a house for himself and his father, he used Wright’s unbuilt Jester House Design.  Unlike most structures at Taliesin the Jester-Pfeiffer House uses white stucco, instead of the multi-colored desert masonry.  And, unlike the angles used by Wright for the main Taliesin West structures, this house uses circles and cylinders.  The result is a striking home that sits at the base of a mountain some distance to the east of the Taliesin West Historic Core structures.  Here are some of the photos I took during my visit that day.