, household. His father, William Carey Wright, worked as a preacher and musician. He moved from job to job and frequently moved his family across the United States. His parents divorced when Wright was still young at a time when divorce was very uncommon. Even before her son was born, Anna Wright had decided that her son was going to be a great architect. Using Froebel's geometric blocks to entertain and educate her son, Mrs. Wright must have struck the genius her son possessed. Use of the imagination was encouraged and Wright was given free run of the playroom that was filled with paper, cardboard, and paste. On the doors were the words, "Sanctum Sanctorum" which is Latin for, "Place of Inviolable Privacy". Wright was seen as a dreamy and sensitive child. Cases of him running away while working on the farmlands with his uncles are documented. Running away became a pattern that continued throughout his life.In 1887, at the age of twenty, Frank Lloyd Wright moved to Chicago. With a brief education in Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Wright was able to find a job as a draftsman in a Chicago architectural firm of J. Lyman Silsbee. During this time, he started on his first project, the "Hillside Home" for his aunts, Nell and Jane. Impatiently moving forward, Wright got a job at one of the most well known firms in Chicago, Adler and Sullivan. Sullivan was to become Wright's mentor. Wright Referred to Sullivan as "Lieber Meister" (beloved master). He admiredhis talent for ornamentation, and his skill of drawing intricate plans and designs. Wright learned these skills from Sullivan and soon moved ahead of Alder in importance withinthe firm. Wright's relationship between him and his employer caused great amounts oftension between Wright and his fellow draftsmen, and as well as in-between Sullivan andAdler. Wright was assigned the residential contracts of the firm. His workload increased as he accepted jobs outside of the fir...
