Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright, architect, was born as Frank Lincoln Wright in Richland Center in southwestern Wisconsin, on June 8, 1867 (a date sometimes reported as 1869). His father, William Carey Wright, was a musician and a preacher. His mother, Anna Lloyd-Jones was a teacher. It is said that Anna Lloyd-Jones placed pictures of great buildings in young Frank's nursery as part of training him up from the earliest possible moment as an architect. Wright spent some of his time growing up at the farm owned by his uncles near Spring Green, Wisconsin (also in the southwestern part of the state). Frank Lloyd Wright was of Welsh ethnic heritage, and was brought up in the Unitarian Faith. Among his most well known completed buildings and houses are Falling Water, Taliesin, The Guggenheim Museum, The Robie House, The Larkin Building, The Imperial Hotel, Unity Temple among many others. He died on April 9, 1959 at the age of ninety-two in Arizona. Photographed in 1958 in New York at the Guggenheim Museum during construction

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