Category: architecture & construction
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Famed Architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s Mistress, her two children, and a Group of Workmen Were Killed After an Employee Set his Home on Fire. August 15, 1914.
On this day in history, famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright was away attending to the construction of Midway Gardens in Chicago when he received a terrible message: “Taliesin destroyed by fire,” it read, and that was all. For the time being, at least, Wright knew little: Their servant, Julian Carlton, had attacked Mamah, Wright’s mistress,…