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Show TAYLOR A. WOOLLEY 1911 he designed a Prairie Style residence for his sister and brother-in-law, Ir reta and The William W. Ray residence, 1915, Yale Ave., Salt Lake Samuel Jackson in the City.Woolley’s inspiration for this house was Frank Lloyd Forest Dale neighbor- Wright’s “Fireproof House Plan for $5,000,” published in hood of Sugarhouse. He Ladies Home Journal in 1907. This house type became very also became a registered popular in Utah as well as nationally. Originally intended to architect in Utah. In Chicago he worked for be constructed of concrete very few were, although Utah Her mann Von Holst examples were often constructed of masonry. with Marion Mahony, who also had previously worked for Wright. Mahony married Walter Burley Griffin in 1911 and Woolley worked in their office after 1911. The Griffins won the 1912 design competition for Australia’s Capitol City, Canberra. At the end of March 1914 Wright wired Woolley requesting his help to prepare an exhibition of Wright’s work to be shown at the Chicago Architectural Club. Woolley, who was in Salt Lake City at the time, immediately left for Taliesin where he took another set of photographs that included a puppet theater that Wright had built for the exhibition. The exhibition opened at the Chicago Art Institute in April 1914; Wright wanted Woolley to stay on at Taliesin through the summer; however Woolley was unable to do so. On August 15, 1914, a terrible tragedy SHIPLER COLLECTION, UTAH STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 153 |
