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     Frank Lloyd Wright     Frank Lloyd Wright was born as Frank Lincoln Wright in Richland Center in southwesterly Wisconsin, on June 8, 1867. His father, William Carey Wright, was a musicianand a preacher. His mother, Anna Lloyd-Jones was a teacher(1 Compton). It is said that AnnaLloyd-Jones placed pictures of great buildings in young Franks nursery as part of training himup from the earliest possible moment as an architect. Wright spent some of his time growing upat the farm holded by his uncles near parachute Green, Wisconsin. Frank Lloyd Wright was ofWelsh ethnic heritage, and was brought up in the Unitarian faith.      Wright briefly studied civil engineering at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, afterwhich he go to Chicago to work for a year in the architectural firm of J. Lyman Silsbee. In1887, he hired on as a draftsman in the firm of Adler and Sullivan, run by Louis Sullivan (design)and Dankmar Adler (engi neering) at the time the firm was designing Chicagos AuditoriumBuilding(1 Compton). Wright eventually became the chief draftsman, and also the man in chargeof the firms residential designs. beneath Sullivan, whom Wright called "Lieber Meister" (belovedmaster), Wright began to develop his own architectural ideas. In 1889 he married his first wife,Catherine Tobin. He also designed houses on his own toward the end, homes Wright calledbootlegged (2 Encarta) which were done against Alder and Sullivans policies concerning much(prenominal)moonlighting. When Louis Sullivan found out about these homes, Wright was fired from the firm.The bootlegged houses showed the start of Wrights low, sheltering rooflines, the prominence ofthe central fireplace, and "the destruction of the box" open floorplans. The Adler and Sullivanfirm was just the right place to be for a young man aspiring to be a great architect, as it was atthe leading edge of American architecture at the time.       Wright started his own firm in 1893 after being fired from Adler and Sullivan, firstworking out of the Schiller building (designed by Adler and Sullivan) and then out of a studiowhich was build onto his home in Oak Park, an affluent suburb of Chicago which is located justto the west of the center of the city.      Between 1893 and 1901, 49 buildings designed by Wright were built. During this head he began to develop his ideas which would come together in his "Prairie House"concept(1 Compton). Into 1909, he developed and refined the prairie style. Frank LloydWright founded the prairie school of architecture, and his art of this early productive result in