His resulting designs were evidently derived from those of [Joseph Lyman] Silsbee [his then-employer], and one of his authorized biographies more or less acknowledges that this architect played the largest role.

"[2] Nell Lloyd Jones asked her nephew to design this structure because she and Jenny were planning on beginning the Hillside Home School on land left to them by their father.

[6] Silsbee had introduced the young Wright to the "Shingle Style mixture of Queen Anne and Colonial elements.

In the section about the Home Building, the article stated that it:[C]ontains the parlors, in one of which there is a beautiful carved fireplace which at once attracts the attention of the visitor….

Former apprentice, Curtis Besinger, noted later that:[Wright]... set a crew to work on the demolition of the old Home building.

He had started the remodeling of this house… in the early years of the Fellowship, and had attempted to change the building… into one resembling the buildings he had designed for his aunts… The roof had been reconfigured and given red tile like that of other Hillside buildings….