1867
| Frank Lloyd Wright was born to Anna Lloyd Jones and William Wright in Richland
Center, Wisconsin, their eldest son. |
1871
| Birth of Marion Mahoney
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1876
| Birth year of Walter Burley Griffin and William Drummond.
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1883
| Birth of Barry Byrne
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1886
| Frank Lloyd Wright attended the Engineering school of the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
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1887
| Wright employed as a draftsman by Lyman Silsbee, a skilled architect
designing in the American Shingle Style in Chicago.
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1887
| Wright joined the firm of Adler & Sullivan as a draftsman for
Louis Sullivan, who had just brought Chicago’s striking new innovation, the
skyscraper, to a mature art form.
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1889
| Wright designed and built his home in Oak Park, IL helped by a loan from Louis Sullivan.
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1893
| Wright fired by Louis Sullivan for “moonlighting”. Began independent
work at Steinway Hall and in his home. Built a home studio in Oak Park,
IL in 1895.
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1894
| Wright
designed the Winslow house for his friend, William Winslow, a first foretaste
of the Prairie house yet to be.
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1895
| Marion Mahoney, the second woman to graduate in architecture from
MIT and the first woman licensed to practice architecture in Illinois, joined
Wright in the Oak Park Studio as his draftsman.
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1901
| Griffin joined Wright in the Oak Park Studio -- the only architect
in the studio permitted to do independent commissions. By 1905 Griffin had
become office manager and project director for Wright.
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1901
| Griffin designed the split-level William H. Emery house in Elmhurst, IL.
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1902
| Wright designed the Ward Willets house in Highland Park, IL his first “Prairie” house.
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1902
| Barry Byrne entered the Oak Park Studio as an apprentice.
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1902
| Hillside School at Spring Green, Wisconsin designed by Wright for his mother’s sisters.
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1903
| Wright designed the Larkin mail-order office building in Buffalo.
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1903
| Griffin
designed the Robbie Lamp house in Madison, the first small Prairie house
with the “L” floor plan.
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1904-08
| Wright designed Unity Temple in Oak Park of cast concrete.
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1905
| Wright and Griffin part company on unfriendly terms. Griffin began independent practice in Chicago in Steinway Hall.
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1906
| Wright designed the Robie House in Chicago.
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1907
| Wright’s design for “A Fireproof House for $5,000” was published in a “Ladies Home Journal”.
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1908
| Wright designed the Meyer May house in Grand Rapids Michigan.
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1908
| Wright designed & built the Stockman house in Mason City, IA,
the third of his “Concrete House Cousins” (after Tan I Deri at Spring Green
and the Stephen M. B. Hunt house in La Grange).
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1909
| Wright designed the Park Inn Hotel and City National Bank in Mason City, IA.
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1909
| Wright elopes to Europe with Mamah Cheney for “spiritual hegira”.
He completed work on drawings for the German “Wasmuth Edition” of his work
while there.
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1910
| William Drummond took over supervision of construction of Park Inn
Hotel - City National Bank project in Mason City. During that year designed
the Curtis Yelland house on River Heights Drive. Park Inn Hotel and City
National Bank project completed in same year.
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1910
| Marion Mahoney took over design and construction of two houses at
Millikin Place, Decatur, and the supervision of one designed by Wright.
These are, respectively, the Robert Mueller and Adolph Mueller houses and
the Irving house. She hired Griffin to do landscape design for Millikin
Place.
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1911
| Marion Mahony and Walter Burley Griffin are married. At about the
same time Griffin began the planning of what was to be his Rock Glen – Rock
Crest residential development in Mason City, IA.
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1912
| Griffin, with the help of Marion’s renderings, won the international
competition to design a city plan for Canberra, to be the new capital of
Australia.
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1912
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The Arthur Rule house and the Harry Page house designed by Griffin and completed.
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1912-14
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The Joshua Melson and James E. Blythe houses designed by Griffin and completed.
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1913
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Griffin and party set sail for Australia. He left his practice
in the hands of Barry Byrne, formerly a Wright apprentice from 1902-1908.
By 1913 Byrne was under the influence of Irving Gill.
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1914
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Wright completed Midway Gardens.
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1914
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Wright’s wife, Mamah Cheney, her three children, a Wright draftsman
and Taliesin were killed in a fire set by a deranged hired hand at Wright’s
bungalow in Spring Green, WI.
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1914-16
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Completion of Samuel Davis Drake
house on Rock Crest by Einar Broaten, apparently after client unsuccessfully
requested client to have Griffin design his house.
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1914-15
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Griffin’s Sam Schneider house in Rock Glen completed under supervision
of Barry Byrne, who later added two upstairs sleeping porches.
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1914-19
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Wright designed the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Japan.
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| 1915 |
Griffin’s Hugh Gilmore House, in the Rock Glen area in Mason City,
IA, was built for James Blythe under the supervision of Barry Byrne. Byrne
probably modified original design.
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1917
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Barry Byrne completed his E. V Franke house in Rock Glen district in Mason City, IA.
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1917
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Hollyhock house built on Hollywood Boulevard for Aline Barnsdall
by Wright. A transitional design between Prairie School and the concrete
blockhouses.
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1919-22
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Construction of the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Japan.
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1933
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Wright’s Malcolm E. Willey house, in Minneapolis, a transition between Taliesin I and the first Usonian house.
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1935
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Wright’s Falling Water – a concrete house with multiple cantilever
balconies built over a waterfall on Bear Run Creek in Pennsylvania. Wright’s
very effective answer to the International Style, and, arguably, his most
famous house.
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1935
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Griffin traveled to Lucknow, India, where he will reinvent his architectural style to conform to Indian needs.
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1936
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The Jacobs house, Madison, Wisconsin, Wright’s first Usonian house.
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1936
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Wright’s Johnson Wax Administration Building, Racine, WI.
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1937-
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Death of Walter Burley Griffin in India from peritonitis following a fall from scaffolding at a building site.
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1945
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Lowell and Agnes Walter house, Cedar Rock on the Wapsipinnicon River
in Quasqueton, Iowa, one of Wright’s signature houses.
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1946
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Death of William Drummond.
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1952
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Wright’s Price Towers, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, a mini-skyscraper
with four apartments on each floor, each cantilevered out from a central
service column.
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1956
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Paul and Ida Trier house, Johnston, Iowa. One of Wright’s Iowa USOnian houses.
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1956
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Wright designed Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, an
art museum in a circular snail-shell design providing a continuous, sky lit
circular ramp for the display of objects of Modern Art.
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1956
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Three Marshall Erdman prefab house plans designed by Wright. Marshall
Erdman is the same firm that designed the Mason City Clinic in a Neo-Prairie
School style.
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1957
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Wright’s Marin County Civic Center.
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1959
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Death of Frank Lloyd Wright
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1959
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Usonian House in Rock Glen designed by Curtis Besinger for Tom MacNider.
Besinger had been a Taliesin apprentice at the time the concept of the Usonian
house was being developed. Besinger was chair of the University of Kansas
Department of Architecture when he did this design.
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1962
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Death of Marion Mahoney in America.
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1967
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Death of Barry Byrne
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1997
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Monona Terrace, built almost 60 years after Wright first proposed
the plan for its site leading up from Lake Monona to the State Capitol at
the summit of a short hill. The number of Wright’s buildings built posthumously
gives ample evidence of his continuing popularity in our land.
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2002
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Avenue of the Arts Bridge, connecting Minneapolis Institute of the
Arts with Minneapolis Convention Center. Designed after a previous Broad
Acre City bridge design by Wright.
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