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Subject index for Architects |
June 8, 1867: Frank Lincoln Wright
born in Richland Center, WI |
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1886: Wright works for Joseph Lyman Silsbee on family Unity Chapel.
1887: Wright moves to Chicago to apprentice with Silsbee.
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1887: Wright jumps to Adler & Sullivan,
works up to Sullivan's Chief Assistant. |
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1889: Wright builds own house/studio, Oak Park, IL
1889: Wright marries Catherine Lee Tobin. |
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| 1891: James Charnley House by Sullivan & Wright, Chicago, IL |
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1893: Wright leaves Sullivan.
Reasons unclear, perhaps about client poaching issues. |
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1889-1913: Wright earns living designing houses mostly in Oak Park & adjacent River Forest, IL + Buffalo, NY
1901: Wright creates Prairie Style with Ward Willits House, Highland Park, IL. |
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| 1902: Dana Thomas House, Springfield, IL (considered first major commission) |
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| 1904: Darwin D. Martin House, Buffalo, NY |
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| 1906: Unity Temple, Oak Park, IL |
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1908: Dr. George C. & Eleanor Stockman House,
Mason City, IA |
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| 1909: City National Bank & Park Inn Hotel, Mason City, IA |
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1909: Frederick C. Robie House, Chicago, IL
(Considered finist example of Prairie style.) |
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| 1909-1910: Wright & Mrs. Mamah Borthwick Cheney, wife of client, have scandalous love affair & flee to Europe.
1910: Wright returns from Fiesole, Italy.
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| 1911: Taliesin, Spring Green, WI |
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1912: Wright opens an office in Chicago.
1913: Midway Gardens, Chicago, IL. (Near Robie House, at edge of Univ. of Chicago, Wright's open-air beer garden is considered a landmark commission. Midway Gardens was demolished in 1929 when prohibition dried up business.)
1914: A Taliesin servant murders Mamah Borthwick Cheney, her two children & four workers, by locking everyone inside & setting fire to Taliesin.
1914: Wright rebuilds Taliesin (Taliesin II).
1914: Miriam Noel sends condolences & within weeks of Mamah's death is living at Taliesin.
1915: Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, Japan (demolished 1968 for economic reasons)
1922: Wright returns from Japan & opens office in Los Angeles.
1923: Earthquake levels Tokyo; Imperial Hotel survives enhancing Wright's reputation.
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| 1916: American Systems Houses, Milwaukee, WI |
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| 1923: Textile Block Alice Millard House, Pasadena, CA |
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1924: Wright meets Olga Ivanovna (Olgivanna) Milonov Hinzenberg who moves into Taliesin.
1924, April: Miriam Noel Wright is forced to leave Taliesin & goes public causing more scandal.
1924: Wright leaves LA for Arizona.
1925: Second fire guts Taliesin & Wright rebuilds again.
1925-27: Wright acrimoniously divorces Miriam Noel Wright who dies in 1928.
1926: Bank forecloses on Taliesin. Wright forced by creditors to auction his Japanese print collection. Taliesin put up for auction. Darwin Martin & other patrons form a corporation that gradually pays off Wright's debts & pays him a salary.
1926: Wright & Olgivanna are arrested for allegedly violating the Mann Act & Wright spends night in jail.
1926: Wright starts work on his autobiography.
1930s: Wright survives scant commissions during Depression by taking in student "fellows" at Taliesin, as per idea by Olgivanna.
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| 1928: Arizona Biltmore Hotel, Phoenix, AZ, by Albert Chase McArthur & Wright |
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1934-6: Fallingwater for Edgar J. Kaufmann, Bear Run, PA
Kaufmann's architect son, a Taliesin fellow, provided introduction. |
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| 1936: SC Johnson Wax Buildings, Racine, WI |
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| 1936 (built 1988): Monona Terrace Convention Center, Madison, WI |
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| 1937: Paul Hanna-Honeycomb House, Palo Alto, CA, first Usonian concept house. |
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| 1937: Taliesin West, Scottsdale, AZ1940: Wright founds Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.
Wright & fellows evolve annual migration pattern between the two Taliesins: winters in AZ & summers in WI. |
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| 1938-54: Florida Southern College (7 buildings), Lakeland, FL |
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| 1947: Unitarian Meeting House, Madison, WI |
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| 1949: Xanadu Gallery (former V.C. Morris store), San Francisco, CA |
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| 1950: First Christian Church, Phoenix, AZ |
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| 1952: David Wright House for his son, Phoenix, AZ |
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| 1953: Price Tower, for H.C. Price Company, Bartlesville, OK |
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| 1954: Beth Sholom Synagogue, Elkins Park, PA |
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| 1956: Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, Milwaukee, WI |
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| 1956-9: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |
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| 1957-72: Marin County Civic Center, Marin, CA |
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April 9, 1959: Frank Lloyd Wright dies in Arizona
(Buried first near Taliesin East, but moved to Taliesin West after Olgivanna dies.) |
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1959: Grady Gammage Auditorium at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
built 1964 under F.L. Wright Foundation, William Wesley Peters |
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| 1971: Music Building at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, by F.L. Wright Foundation |
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| 1972: Center for the Performing Arts, San Jose, CA, by F.L. Wright Foundation, William Wesley Peters, Aaron Green |
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| 1982: Bartlesville Community Center, Bartlesville, OK, by F.L. Wright Foundation, William Wesley Peters |
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