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     Frank Lloyd Wright     Frank Lloyd Wright was innate(p) as Frank Lincoln Wright in Richland Center insouthwestern 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 hardened pictures of outstanding buildings in young Franks nursery as part of reproduction himup from the earliest possible moment as an architect. Wright spent somewhat of his time growing upat the farm experienceed by his uncles near Spring 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 moved to Chicago to work for a stratum 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 (engineering) at the time the firm was designing Chicagos AuditoriumBuilding(1 Compton). Wright eventually became the chief draftsman, and as well the man in chargeof the firms residential designs. Under Sullivan, whom Wright called "Lieber Meister" (belovedmaster), Wright began to develop his own architectural ideas. In 1889 he married his low gear wife,Catherine Tobin. He in addition designed houses on his own toward the end, homes Wright calledbootlegged (2 Encarta) which were done against Alder and Sullivans policies concerning suchmoonlighting. When Louis Sullivan put in 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 demise 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 ar chitecture 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 built 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 thisperiod he began to develop his ideas which would come in concert in his "Prairie House"concept(1 Compton). Into 1909, he developed and refined the prairie style. Frank LloydWright founded the prairie groom of architecture, and his art of this early productive period in