Frank Lloyd Wright

What led Frank Lloyd Wright to become recognized as the greatest American Architect of the twentieth century?
Born in 1867 in Richland Center, Wisconsin of Welsh heritage his idealistic mother Anna Lloyd Jones Wright and her family were committed Unitarians. They had the greatest influence on his early life. It is said that Anna Lloyd–Jones placed pictures of great buildings in young Frank’s nursery as part of training him from the earliest possible moment as an architect. His father, William Carey Wright, was a musician and a preacher. In his mothers honor he changed his middle name to hers. When Frank was twelve his family settled in Madison Wisconsin where he attended Madison High School. During summers spent on his Uncle James Lloyd Jones’ farm in Spring Green, Wisconsin. It was there that Wright first began to realize his dream of becoming an architect.
In 1885, he left Madison without graduating high school to work for Allan Conover, the Dean of the Unive...