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John Lloyd
Wright John Lloyd Wright was the second son (and apprentice) of Frank Lloyd and Catherine Tobin Wright, and inventor of Lincoln Logs. John Lloyd Wright, lived and practiced architecture in Del Mar, designing dozens of homes and commercial buildings in Del Mar, La Jolla, San Diego. Vista, Escondido, Valley Center and Rancho Santa Fe. John Lloyd Wright was born John Kenneth Wright in his father's Home and Studio in Oak Park, Illinois. John first visited San Diego at age 18 working with his older brother Lloyd - who was employed by Olmstead Brothers the landscape architects of the Panama-Pacific Exposition in Balboa Park. Without any training John became a draftsman for the Pacific Building Company designing bungalows. At age 20, in 1912, John was employed by Harrison Albright and given two commissions - the Mrs. M.J. Wood House in Escondido, and later the Workingman's (Golden West) Hotel. The latter was a philanthropic effort to house day laborers by local real estate baron J.B. Spreckels. In 1913, John Lloyd Wright moved to Chicago to work in his father's architectural firm on Michigan Avenue and marry Jeanette Winters (whom he had met in Los Angeles). In 1917 John sailed to Japan with Frank Lloyd Wright to begin work on Tokyo's Imperial Hotel. Before being fired by his father in 1918, John was able to continue designing his line of wooden toys for Chicago's Marshall Field & Co. including the patented Lincoln Logs. In 1920, John moved back to Oak Park following his divorce with Jeanette. In 1921 he married Hazel Lundin. Soon thereafter daughter Elizabeth was born and the family moved to Long Beach, Indiana where John would practice his own interpretation of Louis Sullivan's organic architecture. Following another divorce, John married his client for the Long Beach commission "Shangri-La", Frances Welsh in 1942. In 1946 John published a biography of his father My Father Who is on Earth. In 1947, Frances and John began the next phase of their life together building their home and studio in Del Mar. Here John would weather legal disputes about his unlicensed practice of architecture (he was licensed in Indiana and a member of the AIA), and work on more than 60 projects. John Lloyd Wright continued to design toys, textiles, furniture and buildings from his Del Mar address until his passing in 1972 - at times employing local draftsmen like Herb Turner (for a mere .75 cents per hour. Turner subsidized his earnings by teaching private sculpture lessons from his home for $15 per hour). Prior to the rush of post-war architects moving to the area, Ray Young and John Lloyd Wright were the only architects in the Del Mar area. By the early 1960s as many as 35 architects were living and working in Olde Del Mar.
Partial List of San Diego Projects Bosnian House
(1961) Burnett, Coy
Development (1965) Cantwell, Yager
House Additions (1972) Cantwell, C.Y.
III House (1963-72) Cantwell, Yager
House (1962) Cantwell, R.E.
House (1953) Compton, Frank
E. House (1948) Cookson House
(1958) Crans House (1953) Gonzalez House
(1952) Jewel Studio
Theater (1961) Judkins Guest
House (1946) Kelly House (1967) Kelly's Haven
(1947) Lard, S.S. (Mrs.
D.M.) House (1953) Lepman House
(1954) Longenecker House
Addition (1971) Loudenslager
House (1948-50) MacPherson Studio
House (1947) Marcotte Store
(1949) Marincovich House
(1964) McKinley House
(1948-51) McLeod House
(1958-59) Merrill Residence
(Wonder-Y Ranch) (1959) Mooney House
(1949) Mooney Office
(1953) Ney House (1958) Osborn House
(1948) Salomen Office
(1949) Smith Store (1952) Smith Duplex
(1958) Smith House (1952) Speers House
(1960) Thompson, Renwick
Jr. House (Brickwood) (1964-68) University City
Tract Houses (1962) Villaseneour
Store (1954) Welsh House (1952-60) Wood House (1912) Wood House Addition
(1960) Workingman's
(Golden West) Hotel (1912) Wright, B.W.
House (1951) Wright, Joe House
(1947) Wright, John
Lloyd House and Studio (1947) ZLAC Rowing Club
(1929)
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