- June 8, 1867: Frank Lincoln Wright
born in Richland Center, WI
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- 1887: Wright jumps to Adler & Sullivan,
works up to Sullivan's Chief Assistant.
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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.
- 1926-9: Wright designs Graycliff summer home over Lake Erie near Buffalo for Isabelle R. Martin (wife of patron Darwin D. Martin).
- 1930s: Wright survives scant commissions during Depression by taking in student "fellows" at Taliesin, as per idea by Olgivanna.
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- 1937: Taliesin West, Scottsdale, AZ
- 1940: 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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- 1948-50: Wright designs Usonian Houses to be self built by owners under concept to extend home ownership to middle classes, such as group in Galesburg, MI
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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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