Crime History – Seven murdered at homeof Frank Lloyd Wright

Published August 15, 2010 4:00am ET



On this day, Aug. 15, in 1914, a worker sets fire to the Wisconsin home of architect Franklin Lloyd Wright in Wisconsin and killed seven people.

Wright, America’s most famous architect, named his estate, Taliesin, after a Welsh bard. Wright was in Chicago at the time of the attack.

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