On this date in 1867, Frank Lloyd Wright was born in Wisconsin,
where he was raised with Unitarian and Transcendentalist
beliefs, and as an admirer of all things Welsh by his mother,
Anna Lloyd-Jones. Wright spent time on his uncles' farm near
beautiful Spring Green, Wis., and enrolled at 15 at the
University of Wisconsin. He left the university for a job at a
Chicago architectural firm, soon founding his own firm. He built
25 "Prairie style" homes and structures at Oak Park, Illinois,
from 1889-1913. His controversial personal reputation began in
1909 when he left his first wife and six children to run off
with the wife of a client, Mamah Borthwick Cheney. Wright built
Taliesin (Welsh for "shining brow") for her in Spring Green, and
they lived there for two years. In 1914, a crazed servant from
Barbados set fire to Taliesin, and stood by the exit door with
an ax, where he hacked to death Mamah, two of her children and
four neighbors. The grief-stricken Wright built Taliesen II,
which also became the apparent