Architect Events

1764 May 1 Benjamin Henry Latrobe Is Born
On May 1, 1764, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, considered to be the first professional architect in America, was born at Fulneck, a settlement of the Moravian Church near Leeds in Yorkshire, Eng...
1812 Mar 1 Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin Is Born
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1 March 1812 – 14 September 1852) was an English architect, designer, and theorist of design, now best remembered for his work on churches and the Palace o...
1846 Aug 11 Walter Liberty Vernon Is Born
Walter Liberty Vernon (1846–1914) was an English architect who migrated to the state of New South Wales, Australia and pursued his career as an architect in Sydney. He is noted for design...
1846 Sep 4 Daniel Hudson Burnham Is born
Architect and city planner Daniel Hudson Burnham was born in Henderson, New York, on September 4, 1846. He moved with his family to Chicago nine years later. As a young man, Burnham worke...
1856 Sep 3 Louis Sullivan Born
Louis Henri Sullivan (September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924) was an American architect, and has been called the "father of modernism." He is considered by many as the creator of the modern s...
1867 Jun 8 Frank Lloyd Wright Born
Frank Lloyd Wright was born on June 8, 1867, in Richland Center, Wisconsin. Widely regarded as America's most significant architect, Wright transformed twentieth-century residential desig...
1873 Sullivan Works for William Le Baron Jenney
Laid off in November during the recession of 1873, Louis Henry Sullivan followed his parents to Chicago where Louis Henry Henry Sullivan found a position with the prominent architect Will...
1873 Jun
to 1873 Nov
Sullivan Works for Furness & Hewitt
Louis Henry Sullivan left college in June 1873 after his first year to take a job white Frank Furness, a boisterous, innovative Philadelphia architect responsible for several major buildi...
1874 Oct
to 1874 Dec
Sullivan Studies at the École des Beaux-Arts
After six fruitful months with William Le Baron Jenney, Louis Henry Sullivan decided to return to school for theoretical grounding, this time to the acknowledged source of architectural w...
1875
to 1879
Sullivan Works for Joseph S. Johnston & John Edelman
In 1874 he was off to Paris, France to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, but that too only lasted for a short time. He returned to Chicago in 1875 and obtained a job as a draftsman in th...
1883 Aug 30 Christian Emil Marie Küpper (Theo van Doesburg) Born
Theo van Doesburg was born as Christian Emil Marie Küpper on 30 August 1883 in Utrecht as the son of the photographer Wilhelm Küpper and Henrietta Catherina Margadant. After a short train...
1885 William Carey Wright and Anna Lloyd Jones Divorce
Soon after Wright turned 14 his parents separated. Anna had been unhappy for some time with William's inability to provide for his family and asked him to leave. The divorce was finalized...
1886 Frank Lloyd Wright admitted to University of Wisconsin Madison
Wright was admitted to the University of Wisconsin–Madison as a special student in 1886. There he joined Phi Delta Theta fraternity, took classes part-time for two semesters, and worked w...
1887 Wright arrives in Chicago and Works for Joseph Lyman Silsbee
In 1887, Wright arrived in Chicago in search of employment. Resulting from the devastating Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and recent population boom, new development was plentiful in the city...
1888
to 1893
Frank Lloyd Wright Works for Adler & Sullivan
After less than a year had passed in Silsbee’s office, Wright learned that Adler & Sullivan, the forerunning firm in Chicago, were "looking for someone to make the finish drawings for the...
1889 Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio Completed
The Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio at 951 Chicago Avenue in Oak Park, Illinois, has been restored by the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust to its appearance in 1909, the last year...
1889 Jun 1 Frank Lloyd Wright Marries Catherine Tobin
On June 1, 1889, Wright married his first wife, Catherine Lee "Kitty" Tobin (1871–1959). The two had met around a year earlier during activities at All Souls Church. Sullivan did his part...
1890 Frank Lloyd Wright Works on Louis Sullivan Bungalow
The Louis Sullivan Bungalow was a vacation home for noted architect Louis Sullivan on the Gulf Coast in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. It was built in the early 1890s, restored in the 1980s,...
1892 Allison Harlan House Constructed; A "Bootleg House"
As with the residential projects for Adler & Sullivan, Wright designed his bootleg houses on his own time. Sullivan knew nothing of the independent works until 1893, when he recognized th...
1892 Frank Lloyd Wright Establishes His Own Practice
After leaving Louis Sullivan, Wright established his own practice on the top floor of the Sullivan designed Schiller Building (1892, demolished 1961) on Randolph Street in Chicago. Wright...
1892 James Charnley Residence Completed
The James Charnley Residence is located in Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood, in the 1300 block of North Astor Street. The house is now called the Charnley–Persky House. An Adler & Sulliv...
1892 Robert G. Emmond House Completed; A "Bootleg House"
The Robert G. Emmond residence is a transitional work designed prior to the formation of Wright's mature Prairie style. With octagonal shaped bays and strong rectilinear forms, the Emmond...
1892 Robert P. Parker House Completed; A "Bootleg House"
The Robert P. Parker House is a house located in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Illinois, United States. The house was designed by famous American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1892 an...
1892 Thomas H. Gale House Completed; A "Bootleg House"
The Thomas H. Gale House, or simply Thomas Gale House, is a house located in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Illinois, United States. The house was designed by famous American architect F...
1893 Fracis J. Woolley House Completed; A "Bootleg House"
The Francis J. Woolley House is located in Oak Park, Illinois, United States, a Chicago suburb. The house was designed by famous American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1893. The Queen A...
1893 Walter Gale House Completed; A "Bootleg House"
The Walter H. Gale House, located in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Illinois, was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and constructed in 1893. The house was commissioned by Walter H. Gale of ...
1893 William H. Winslow House Constructed
The Winslow House is a building in River Forest, Illinois designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Built on a private street on the Edward Waller estate, the Winslow House was Wright's f...
1897 Frank Lloyd Wright Moves Practice to Steinway Hall
Wright moved out of the Schiller Building and into the nearby and newly completed Steinway Hall Building. The loft space was shared with Robert C. Spencer, Jr., Myron Hunt, and Dwight H. ...
1897 Isadore H. Heller House Constructed
The Isidore H. Heller House is a house located at 5132 South Woodlawn Avenue in the Hyde Park community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, USA. The house was designed by American a...
1898 Frank Lloyd Wright Relocates Practice to His Home
Wright relocated his practice to his home in 1898 in order to bring his work and family lives closer. This move made further sense as the majority of the architect’s projects at that time...
1900 B. Harley Bradley House Constructed
The B. Harley Bradley House in Kankakee, Illinois, is widely acknowledged as Wright's first Prairie Style design. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places individually and...
1900 Warren Hickox House Constructed
Warren Hickox House, also known as the Hickox/Brown house, is a Frank Lloyd Wright designed Prairie school home that was constructed in Kankakee, Illinois in 1900. Warren Hickox's wife wa...
1901 Frank Thomas House Constructed
The Frank W. Thomas House is located in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Illinois, United States. The building was designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1901 and cast in the Wright-d...
1901 Ward W. Willits House Constructed
The Ward W. Willits House is a building designed by famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Designed in 1901, the Willits house is considered the first of the great Prairie houses. Built in ...
1901 Feb Wright Published in Ladies' Home Journal
Between 1900 and 1901, Frank Lloyd Wright completed four houses which have since been considered the onset of the "Prairie style". Two, the Hickox and Bradley Houses, were the last transi...
1901 Jul Wright Published in Ladies' Home Journal
Between 1900 and 1901, Frank Lloyd Wright completed four houses which have since been considered the onset of the "Prairie style". Two, the Hickox and Bradley Houses, were the last transi...
1902 Dana-Thomas House Constructed
The Dana-Thomas House or Susan Lawrence Dana House or Dana House (built 1902-04) is an expression of architect Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie Style. Located along East Lawrence Avenue in Sp...
1903 Edwin H. Cheney House Constructed
Edwin H. Cheney House (1903) located in Oak Park, Illinois, United States, was Frank Lloyd Wright's design of this residence for electrical engineer Edwin Cheney. The house is part of the...
1903 Hillside Home School Completed
The Lloyd Jones family are Wright's maternal ancestors. Aunts, Ellen (1845-1919) and Jane (1847/8-1917) received formal college training. Ellen taught at River Falls Normal School and...
1905
to 1908
Unity Temple Constructed
Unity Temple is a Unitarian Universalist church in Oak Park, Illinois, and the home of the Unity Temple Unitarian Universalist Congregation. It was designed by the American architect Fran...
1905 Wright's First Trip to Japan
Wright was remarkably quiet about his three months in Japan. We know he stayed April 23,1905 at the famous Kanaya Hotel in Nikko and two days later checked into Hakone’s Fujiya Hotel. He ...
1909 Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Borthwick Cheney Elope
Local gossips noticed Wright's flirtations, and he developed a reputation in Oak Park as a man-about-town. His family had grown to six children, and the brood required most of Catherine's...
1910 Robie House Completed
The Frederick C. Robie House is a U.S National Historic Landmark in the Chicago, Illinois neighborhood of Hyde Park at 5757 S. Woodlawn Avenue on the South Side. It was designed and built...
1911 Taliesin Constructed
Taliesin, near Spring Green, Wisconsin, was the summer home of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright began the home in 1911 after leaving his first wife, Catherine Tobin, and his ...
1911 Aug 6 Edwin Cheney Divorces his Wife, Mamah Borthwick Cheney
Originally published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, August 6, 1911, page 3. Her Spiritual Hegira Ends in His divorce. ------------------------- Cheney Divorces Wife Who Eloped. -----...
1914 Aug 15 Mamah Borthwick Cheney and Two Children Murdered
On August 15, 1914, one of Wright's recently hired domestic workers, Julian Carlton, murdered Mamah, her two children, three of Wright's associates, and a son of one of the associates. Ca...
1923 Nov 19 Wright Marries Miriam Noel
Immediately after the tragic death of Mamah Cheney on August 15, 1914, Miriam Noel sent condolences to Wright. Within weeks Wright became involved with Miriam and she moved into Taliesin....
1928 Aug 25 Frank Lloyd Wright Marries Olgivanna Lazovich Hinzenburg
Olga (Olgivanna) Ivanovna Lazovich was a Montenegrin dancer, born in Montenegro on 27 December 1898. A daughter of Ivan Lazovich and his wife, Militza Miljanova, she was the granddaughter...
1935 Fallingwater Constructed
Fallingwater is a house designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935 in rural southwestern Pennsylvania, 50 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. The home was built partly over a wa...
1937 Taliesin West Constructed
Taliesin West was architect Frank Lloyd Wright's winter home and school in the desert from 1937 until his death in 1959 at the age of 91. Taliesin West is "the main campus of the Frank Ll...