Frank Lloyd WrightFrank Lloyd Wright was born Frank Lincoln Wright in Richland Center in southwestern Wisconsin on June 8, 1867. His father, William Carey Wright, was a musician and preacher. His mother, Anna Lloyd-Jones, was a teacher (1 Compton). AnnaLloyd-Jones is said to have placed photos of large buildings in young Frank's bedroom as part of his early training as an architect. Wright spent some of his time growing up on the farm his uncles owned near Spring Green, Wisconsin. Frank Lloyd Wright was of Welsh ethnic origin and was raised in the Unitarian faith. Wright briefly studied civil engineering at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, after which he moved to Chicago to work for a year in the architectural firm of J. Lyman Silsbee. . In 1887, he hired as a draftsman at the firm of Adler and Sullivan, run by Louis Sullivan (design) and Dankmar Adler (engineering) at the time the firm was designing Chicago's Auditorium Building (1 Compton). Wright eventually became the chief draftsman and also the man in charge of the company's residential projects. Under Sullivan, whom Wright called "Lieber Meister" (beloved master), Wright began to develop his own architectural ideas. In 1889 he married his first wife, Catherine Tobin. Towards the end he also designed houses on his own, houses that Wright called “bootlegged” (2 Encarta) which were built against Alder and Sullivan's policies regarding such moonlighting. When Louis Sullivan learned of these houses, Wright was fired from the company. The contraband homes featured the beginnings of Wright's low, sheltered roof lines, central chimney prominence, and open "box destruction" floor plans. The firm of Adler and Sullivan was just the right place for a young man who aspired to become a great architect, as it was at the forefront of American architecture at the time. Wright founded his firm in 1893 after being fired by Adler and Sullivan, working first in the Schiller Building (designed by Adler and Sullivan) and then in a studio built in his home in Oak Park, an affluent Chicago suburb located just west of the city center. 49 Wright-designed buildings were constructed between 1893 and 1901. During this time he began to develop his ideas that would feed into his concept of the "Prairie House" (1 Compton). In 1909 he developed and perfected the prairie style. Frank Lloyd Wright founded the “prairie school” of architecture and his art in this early productive period