1856 Louis Henri Sullivan born, Boston,
Massachusetts
1864 George
Washington Maher born in Mill Creek, West Virginia
1867 Frank Lloyd Wright born, Richland Center, Wisconsin
1869 George Grant Elmslie born, Aberdeenshire,
Scotland
1880 William Gray Purcell born, Wilmette, Illinois
1884 Elmslie immigrates to United
States
1884-85 Adler and Sullivan's Scoville
Building, Chicago
1887 Frank Lloyd
Wright, George Washington Maher, and George Grant Elmslie simultaneously
work for Chicago architect Joseph Lyman Silsbee
1887 Frank Lloyd Wright leaves Joseph Lyman Silsbee for Adler and Sullivan
1887 George Washington Maher leaves Silsbee
to open his own practice in Chicago
1889 Wright helps George Elmslie get
a job with Adler and Sullivan
1889 Frank Lloyd Wright builds home for himself, a shingle-style
with Progressive elements, in Oak Park, Illinois
1890-91 Adler and Sullivan's Wainwright
Building, St. Louis, Missouri
1891-92 Adler and Sullivan's Schiller Building Theater, Chicago
1893 Adler and Sullivan's Chicago Stock Exchange Building
1893 Wright leaves Adler and Sullivan to open own practice
1895 Adler and Sullivan partnership ends
1895 George Grant Elmslie becomes
Sullivan's chief draftsman
1896 House Beautiful magazine begins publication in Chicago,
popularizing the Arts and Crafts Movement in America
1901 Wright's Ward Willits House, now considered the first
Prairie School residence
1902 Frank Lloyd Wright's Francis W. Little House, Peoria,
Illinois
1903 Elmslie secures a five month
internship with Sullivan for Purcell
1903 Sullivan's Carson Pirie Scott Building,
Chicago
1903-06 Purcell interns on the West Coast
1903 Frank Lloyd Wright's Larkin Building, Buffalo, New York
1904 Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple, Oak Park, Illinois
1904 Handicraft Guild of Minneapolis established
1907 Purcell and Feick establish architecture
practice in Minneapolis
1907 Purcell and Feick's Catherine Gray House,
Minneapolis
1907-08 Sullivan's Henry B. Babson House,
Riverside, Illinois
1907-09 Louis Sullivan's National Farmers'
Bank, Owatonna, Minnesota; Elmslie is principal designer
1908 Purcell and Feick hire a woman
drafter, Marion Alice Parker
1909-10 Purcell and Feick's Stewart Memorial
Presbyterian Church, Minneapolis
1909 Elmslie
leaves Sullivan's practice; Sullivan can no longer afford to pay him
1909 Frank Lloyd Wright's Frederik C. Robie House, Chicago
1910 Elmslie joins Purcell in Minneapolis
to form Purcell, Feick and Elmslie
1910 Purcell, Feick and Elmslie's
first commission as a firm, the E.L. Powers House, Minneapolis
1910 George Washington Maher's Charles
J. Winton, Sr. House, Minneapolis
1912 George
Washington Maher's E.L. King House (Rockledge), Homer, Minnesota
1912 Elmslie moves to Chicago and
opens branch office of Purcell, Feick and Elmslie
1912-13 Purcell, Feick and Elmslie's
Edward W. Decker House, Wayzata, MN
1912-13 Purcell and Elmslie's Merchants
National Bank of Winona, Winona, Minnesota
1912-14 Frank Lloyd Wright's Francis W. Little House, Deephaven,
Minnesota
1913 Feick leaves Purcell, Feick,
and Elmslie
1913 Purcell and Elmslie's Edna S.
Purcell House (Purcell-Cutts House), Minneapolis
1913 Purcell and Elmslie's Madison
State Bank, Madison, Minnesota
1914 Frank Lloyd Wright's Midway Gardens, Chicago
1915 Purcell and Elmslie's Minnesota
Phonograph Company, Minneapolis
1916 Purcell and Elmslie's Farmers
and Merchants Bank, Hector, Minnesota
1916-22 Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, Japan
1917 United States enters World War I
1918 Handicraft Guild becomes University of Minnesota's art
education program
1919 Treaty of Versailles ends World War I
1920 Purcell moves to West Coast for
remainder of his career
1921 Purcell dissolves Purcell and
Elmslie partnership
1922 Elmslie's Capitol Building and
Loan Association Building, Topeka, Kansas
1924 Louis H. Sullivan dies
1926 George Washington Maher commits
suicide
1928 Elmslie's Western Springs Congregational
Church, Western Springs, Illinois
1929 "Black Thursday" market crash begins decade-long Great
Depression
1952 George Grant Elmslie dies
1953 Purcell and Elmslie exhibition at the
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
1956-59 Wright's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
1959 Frank Lloyd Wright dies
1965 William Gray Purcell dies
Emphasize: Louis Sullivan Frank Lloyd Wright Purcell & Elmslie George Washington Maher
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