Timeline of Frank Lloyd Wright's Life

1867
Frank Lincoln Wright is born in Richland Center, WI on June 8.

1876
Wright's mother introduces the "Froebel Kindergarten" training to her son (on the web)

1885
Wright's parents divorce and he changes his given name to Frank Lloyd Wright to reflect his mother's name and heritage.

1887
Wright moves to Chicago

1889
Wright marries Catherine Lee Tobin
Designs his own home in Oak Park, IL (on the web)

1890
Begins working with Adler and Sullivan (on the web)
Designs the Wainwright Building, Chicago, IL

1891
Designs the Charnley House, Chicago, IL (on the web)

1893
Wright opens his own practice in Chicago
Designs house for Walter Gale, Oak Park, IL (on the web)
Designs house and stables for William H. Winslow, River Forest, IL
Designs Japanese Temple for World's Columbian Exhibition, Chicago, IL (on the web)

1894
First exhibition of Wright's work is held at the Chicago Architectural Club (on the web)

1895
Designs Francis Apartments for Terre Haute Trust Company, Chicago, IL

1896
Designs house for Isidore Heller, Chicago, IL

1902
Designs house for Ward W. Willits, Highland Park, IL
Designs house for Susan Lawrence Dana, Springfield, IL (on the web)
Designs Larkin Company Administration Building, Buffalo, NY

1905
Designs Unity Temple, Oak Park, IL
Wright and his wife make their first trip to Japan
Designs Lawrence Memorial Library, Dana House, Springfield, IL (on the web)

1907
The Art Institute of Chicago gives Wright his first solo exhibition
"Fireproof House for $5,000" article and designs published in the Ladies Home Journal

1908
Designs house for Isabel Roberts, River Forest, IL
Designs house for Frederick C. Robie, Chicago, IL (on the web)
Designs house for Dr. G.C. Stockman, Mason City, IA

1909
Wright leaves his practice and family for Europe, accompanied by Mamah Borthwick Cheney, the wife of a client

1910
Wright returns from Fiesole, Italy (on the web)

1911
Wright begins building a new home and studio near Spring Green, WI, calling the complex "Taliesin" (on the web)
Moves into the complex with Borthwick Cheney and her two children

1912
Wright opens an office in Chicago

1913
Designs Midway Gardens, Chicago, IL

1914
A Taliesin servant kills Mamah Borthwick Cheney, her two children and four workers, after setting fire to Taliesin, which Wright begins rebuilding after one month
Wright meets Maud Miriam Noel through her writings to him, and she eventually moves into Taliesin

1916
Wright sails to Japan with Miriam Noel and opens a office in Tokyo
Wright begins work on the Imperial Hotel
Begins design of the Hollyhock House for Aline Barnsdall, Los Angeles, CA

1922
Wright returns to America from Japan and opens an office in Los Angeles
Frank Lloyd Wright and Catherine Wright are finally divorced
Wright marries Maud Miriam Noel

1923
Kanto earthquake demolishes much of Tokyo, yet the Imperial Hotel survives
Designs Lake Tahoe Resort, Lake Tahoe, CA

1924
Wright leaves LA for Arizona
Wright separates from Miriam Noel, who moves back to LA
Wright meets Olgivanna Lazovich who subsequently moves into Taliesin

1925
Wright begins divorce proceedings for Miriam Noel Wright
Second major fire occurs at Taliesin due to faulty wiring and Wright again rebuilds Taliesin

1926
Wright's divorce proceedings go horribly awry
Wright and Hinzenberg are arrested near Minneapolis for allegedly violating the Mann Act and spend several nights in Hennepin County jail
Wright starts work on his autobiography

1927
Wright and Maud Miriam Noel Wright are divorced

1928
Wright and apprentices begin construction of a scale model of a section of Broadacre City
Wright marries Olgivanna Lazovich
Miriam Noel dies

1932
Wright's works An Autobiography and The Disappearing City are published

1934
The first issue of Taliesin, a magazine founded by Wright, is published by Taliesin Press
Designs "Fallingwater" House for Edgar J. Kaufmann, Bear Run, PA

1935
Construction of the Broadacre City model continues at "La Hacienda" in Chandler, AZ

1936
Designs house for Herbert Jacobs, Madison, WI
Designs the S.C. Johnson & Son Co. Administration Building (Johnson Wax), Racine, WI

1937
Wright purchases 800 acres of land in Scottsdale, AZ and design and construction of Taliesin West begins

1939
Designs house for George Sturges, Brentwood Heights, Los Angeles, CA
Designs house for Kathrine Winckler and Alma Goetsch, Okemos, MI

1940
Wright founds the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation

1943
Wright begins work on the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Designs Solar Hemicycle House for Herbert Jacobs, Middleton, WI

1944
Designs S.C. Johnson & Son Co. Research Tower (Johnson Wax), Racine, WI

1949
Wright wins gold medal of the American Institute of Architecture
Ayn Rand's book The Fountainhead is adapted for the screen, with Gary Cooper starring as Howard Roark, a character based on Wright

1953
Designs the Price Tower for the H.C. Price Company, Bartlesville, OK
Designs the Riverview Terrace Restaurant, Spring Green, WI
Usonian Exhibition House and Pavilion for "Sixty Years of Living Architecture" is on display in New York, NY

1954
Wright is awarded an honorary doctorate of fine arts by Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Designs Beth Sholom Synagogue, Elkins Park, PA

1956
Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago declares October 17 "Frank Lloyd Wright Day"
The Guggenheim Museum has a final plan, New York, NY
Designs Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, Wauwatosa, WI

1957
Wright is asked to design a cultural center to include and opera house, two museums, plus a post office and telecommunications building in Baghdad

1959
Frank Lloyd Wright dies on April 9 in Arizona

NOTE: If there is any important date you feel is missing from this brief timeline or any error contained within, please contact me.