June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959
Frank Lloyd Wright is one of the most renowned architects of all time. He passed away after a long life at the age of 91 years old, 52 years ago today.
Mr. Wright was married three times and had a love affair with a woman named Mamah Cheney. Mamah was killed in a fire at their home, set by a deranged employee of his architectural school in Wisconsin. Although married to his third wife, Olgivanna, when Mr. Wright died, his request was to be buried next to Mamah at the site of their burned home in Wisconsin. However, Olgivanna chose differently and when she died her Will instructed that “Frank be exhumed and cremated, his cremains mixed with her own, and the combined remains kept in an urn at Taliesin West [Mr. Wright’s school in Arizona].”1 Olgivanna’s request was satisfied.
1 Tod Benoit, Where Are They Buried? (New York: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Inc.), 340
