[3] She went on to study architecture under Ludwig Mies van der Rohe at the Armour Institute in Chicago, being one of three female students, and also took courses at the University of California, Berkeley.

[3] Louis Gordon Ingraham (husband) was a fellow apprentice at the Taliesin, after their studies, they married and later settled in Colorado in the late forties to early fifties.

[4] As architects they adhered to Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian and Prairie styles, producing "modest homes affordable to the upper middle class".

[3] She went on to design approximately 150 buildings in Colorado Springs,[4][9] including the Vista Grande Community Church (1987),[10] an expansion of the Fountain Branch of the El Paso Country Library (2006),[11][9] an upper story addition to the All Souls Unitarian Church,[12] and the Solaz, La Casa, Kaleidoscope, Beadles, and Vradenburg private homes.

[5] It was said that her favorite projects to work on were public buildings intended for the community, showcasing her belief that architects could serve as contributors to society.

Following her grandfather's lead, Wright Ingraham designed homes that had "low-slung" exteriors, integrated into the landscape, incorporated natural light, used organic building materials, and offered exceptional outdoor views.

[11] Her design for the Vista Grande Community Church used an "energy-efficient, easy-to-maintain, insulated concrete called Thermomass", being one of the first buildings in the country to do so.

Her work was described as 'environmental architecture'[15] Wrights main drive during her career was establishing a connection to society and the community through the contributions she was making as an architect.

[6] In 1970, the same year she founded her architectural practice, Wright Ingraham established the non-profit Wright-Ingraham Institute for the study of land use and natural resources.

[9] After residing in Colorado Springs for 65 years, Wright Ingraham moved to her son's home in San Antonio, Texas, in January 2013.