
Our first stop is the Unity Chapel, built by Joseph Lyman Silsbee in 1886. Silsbee was acquainted with Wright's Uncle, Jenkin Lloyd Jones, a prominent Unitarian minister in Chicago. When the Wright family hired Silsbee to build this chapel, he allowed a young family member with an interest in architecture to assist him: this, of course, was Frank Lloyd Wright. It is thought that Wright may have designed the interior of this shingle style church.
Around the chapel grounds are the graves of many members of the Wright family; Wright himself was buried here after his death in 1959. However, after Olgivanna Wright died, Wright's body was disinterred, his remains were cremated, and his ashes mixed with Olivanna's and spread over the Arizona desert.