Frank Lloyd Wright

I was born on June 8, 1867 in Richland Center Wisconsin. My mother was a teacher and my father was a preacher and musician. We were constantly moving and never really settled in one house. I would spend summers with my mother’s family in Wisconsin. While visiting them I fell in love with the landscape of the area. The hills there were so beautiful and fascinating. In 1885 I graduated from high school. After that my parents got a divorce and I went to college at the University of Wisconsin to study civil engineering. To help pay for tuition I helped the architect build the Unity Chapel and after the experience that’s when I knew I wanted to be an architect. (Frank Lloyd Wright-Biography. N.p., n.d. Web. 8 Apr. 2013.
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My first job was with Joseph Lyman Silsbee. I was drafting the Lloyd Jones family chapel. After that project I went to work for the firm Alder and Sullivan. Sullivan influenced my career and helped me become the man I was. While working with Sullivan I fell in love with Catherine Tobin.  I built a house for Catherine and me in Oak Park Illinois and then we moved in together. 18 years later I moved to Germany to live with Mamah Chaney. We then moved to Spring Green Wisconsin and my mother gave me some land that was owned by my ancestors for us to live on. I built a house on that land