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Frank Lloyd Wright was born on June 8, 1867 in Richland Center, Wisconsin.
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In 1885, Wright Graduated from High School.
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In 1885, parents got divorced.
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Wright enrolled at the University of Wisconsin at Madison to study civil engineering; in order to pay his tuition and help support his family, he worked for the dean of the engineering department and assisted the acclaimed architect Joseph Silsbee with the construction of the Unity Chapel.
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The experience convinced Wright that he wanted to become an architect, and in 1887 he dropped out of school to go to work for Silsbee in Chicago.
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In 1889, Wright began an apprenticeship with the Chicago architectural firm of Adler and Sullivan, working directly under Louis Sullivan, the great American architect best known as "the father of skyscrapers."
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In 1909, after Frank was married 20 years he left his wife and children to Germany with a woman, Mamah Borthwick Cheney, the wife of a client.
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In 1913, Frank and Cheney moved back to the US and Frank built them a home in Spring Green, Wisconsin.
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In 1914, a tragedy happened when a deranged servant set fire to the house, burning it to the ground and killing Cheney and six others.
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In 1915, a Japanese Emperor asked Wright to design an Imperial Hotel in Tokyo.
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The Great Kanto earthquake of 1923, proved that Frank’s hotel was earthquake proof, for
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When he returned to the US, he met a sculptor named Miriam Noel in 1923.
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In 1925, there was another fire, caused by an electrical problem, destroying Taliesin yet again, and causing Wright to rebuild it again.
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Miriam and Frank stayed together four years before divorcing in 1927.
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In 1928, Frank married his third wife, Olga (Olgivanna) Ivanovna Lazovich
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He died April 9, 1959 in Phoenix Arizona.
