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Show UTAH HISTORICAL QUARTERLY A rchitecture was a promising career Construction photograph of for Taylor A. Woolley, a young Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin, Utahn at the turn of the twentieth Spring Green, Wisconsin. The century. Unfortunately for mal wing on the left contained a education in the subject was not available in workroom-studio and a Utah or the surrounding states. A beginning bedroom for the draftsmen. draftsman learned by office experience and The main living area for Frank by taking drafting and drawing courses through such institutions as the International Lloyd Wright and Mamah Cheney Cor respondence School of Scranton, is at the end of the courtyard. Pennsylvania. Woolley worked as a draftsman Photo by Taylor Woolley, for two Salt Lake architectural firms. His c. 1911. office exper ience no doubt introduced him to the architecture of Chicago and New York City via architectural periodicals, and, most likely, the encouragement of one of his bosses, architect Alberto Treganza, led to his wanderlust. With three years of work experience as a draftsman, he headed to Chicago first working for a well-connected “society” architect, Howard Van Doren, Shaw in 1908 and part of 1909. In the evenings he took classes in drawing at the Chicago Art Institute. Beginning in 1909 he was employed as a draftsman by the successful and prolific Frank Lloyd Wright. At the time Wright was considering a major change in his life due to several circumstances. A romantic liaison with the wife of one of his clients caused personal unrest and affected his marriage. The invitation of a German 150 |
