Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright was born as Frank Lincoln Wright in Richland Center in
southwestern Wisconsin, on June 8, 1867. His father, William Carey Wright, was a musician
and a preacher. His mother, Anna Lloyd-Jones was a teacher(1 Compton). 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. Frank Lloyd Wright was of
Welsh ethnic heritage, and was brought up in the Unitarian faith.
Wright briefly studied civil engineering at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, after
which he moved to Chicago to work for a year in the architectural firm of J. Lyman Silsbee. In
1887, he hired on as a draftsman in the firm of Adler and Sullivan, run by Louis Sullivan (design)
and Dankmar Adler (engineering) at the time the firm was designing Chicago's......

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