Frank Lloyd Wright and Major Historical Events
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Updated: 9 Nov 2022
This timeline brings some of Frank Lloyd Wright's major works and life events and presents them within the context of American history. This timeline provides a broad stroke of major historical events in order to provide context to the era in which Wright was working and living.
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Frank Lloyd Wright born
Richland Center, WI (1867)Statue of Liberty
constructed in New York Harbor
(1886)The Great Chicago Fire
(1871)Wright attends University of Wisconsin-Madison
for Civil EngineeringWright moves to Chicago
begins working for Louis Sullivan
and Dankmar AdlerWright marries Catherine Lee Tobin and moves
to Oak Park to build the Home and StudioWorld’s Columbian Exposition,
also known as the Chicago World’s Fair,
takes place in Chicago, IL (1893)Alexander Graham Bell
invents the telephone
(1876)Thomas Edison
invents the light bulb
(1879)Haymarket Incident
Chicago, IL (1886)Hull House founded
by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr
Chicago, IL (1889)Tuskegee Institute
founded in Tuskegee, Alabama
(1881)US Steel Corporation founded
by JP Morgan (1901)San Francisco Earthquake
(1906)RMS Titanic sinks
in the North Atlantic Ocean
(1912)United States enters
World War I (1917)The 19th Amendment is
passed, granting women the
right to vote (1920)Tulsa Race Massacre
occurs in Tulsa, OK (1921)Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)
Beginning of American involvment in World War IIBrown vs Board of Education
decision made by Supreme Court
(1954)Civil Rights Act (1960)-
Passed stricter laws against voter intimidation and obstructionSputnik launched by
Soviet Union (1957)Beginning of House Un-American Activities
Senate Committee,
set forth by Senator Joseph McCarthy (1950)Frank Thomas House
Oak Park, IL (1901)
Beginning of Prairie styleThe Rookery
Redesign (1905)Unity Temple (1908)Frederick C. Robie House
Chicago, IL (1908-1910)Wright and Catherine
Visit JapanWright leaves Oak Park, separates from Catherine
and travels to Europe with former client,
Mamah BorthwickTaliesin
Spring Green, WI (1911)Imperial Hotel
Tokyo, Japan (1923, Demolished 1967)
Survives Earthquake of 1923Hollyhock House
Los Angeles, CA (1921)Mamah Borthwick and her two children perish
in a homicide at Taliesin. The building is set on
fire during the attack and destroyed.Taliesin Fellowship begins in
Spring Green, WIJohnson Wax Building
Racine, WI (1936)Taliesin West
Scottsdale, AZ (1937)Jacobs I
Madison, WI (1937)Fallingwater
Mill Run, PA (1937)Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
New York, NY (1943-1959)Child of the Sun Campus
Southern Florida University
Lakeland, FL (1941-1958)Laurent House
Rockford, IL (1951)Beth Shalom Synagogue
Elkins Park, PA (1954)Citizenship fully granted
to all formerly enslaved people
in the United States via
the first Civil Rights Act (1866)15th Amendment passed
granting men of all races
the right to vote (1870)The Emancipation Proclaimation
signed by Abraham Lincoln
(1862)Periods
Civil War
in the United States
(1861-1865)Reconstruction Era Post-Civil War (1865-1877)World War I
begins in Europe
(1914)The Great Depression (1929-1939)The Dust Bowl (1934-1939)World War II (1939-1945)The Cold War (1947-1991)The Korean War
(1950-1953)
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