Frank Lloyd Wright

In 1936, Herbert Fisk Johnson, Jr. (1899-1978) commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design a new administration building for S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc., (also known as Johnson Wax), the family business which has since been renamed SC Johnson, A Family Company.  Johnson loved the plan so much he later commissioned Wright to design a new home for his family in Racine, Wisconsin. Completed in 1939, Wright called the 14,000-foot creation Wingspread, because its four wings embrace the prairie, while the roof over the central Great Hall soars skyward. The Johnson family lived at Wingspread through the 1950s and eventually donated the building to The Johnson Foundation in 1961 to be used as a conference facility.

                                           History courtesy of Megan Bednar, The Johnson Foundation