Born in Topeka, Kansas, Arthur Howell Knox (1880 – 1973) graduated from Northwestern University in 1902. Two years later, he joined the Chicago Architecture Club. The Board of Education hired Knox as a draftsman in 1906. Three years later, he and fellow draftsman Clarence Hatzfeld decided to form a partnership. (Hatzfeld had already established a […]
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Hussander prepared plans for more than 60 new Chicago Public School buildings and 45 additions to existing structures. His school designs include Lindblom Technical School; Senn High School; Carter Harrison Technical School (now Maria Saucedo Scholastic Academy); and Bell, Herzl, Parkside, Peirce, Pope, Thorp, and Riis elementary schools are examples of his work.
In 1901, Hatzfeld accepted a position of draftsman for the Chicago Board of Education, first under head architect William B. Mundie, and later under Perkins.
The son of an attorney from John L. Hamilton was born in Bloomington, Illinois. His family moved to Chicago and Hamilton graduated from the Chicago Manual Training School, where he likely first learned architectural drafting. In 1897, Hamilton became a draftsman for the Chicago Board of Education earning a salary of $15 per week and […]
Born in Germany, Paul Gerhardt, Sr., attended the Royal Academy in Leipzig and received a degree in engineering at the Technical University of Hanover in 1884. According to a report produced by the Chicago Commission on Landmarks, Gerhardt “came to the United States in 1890 at the behest of the German Textile Corporation to design […]
Born in Glencoe, Illinois, Flanders began his training in architecture in 1866 as an 18-year-old apprentice to Augustus Bauer. After a year or two, he joined the firm of Theodore Watskier, and shortly after that, William W. Boyington (designer of Chicago’s iconic Water Tower). Flanders finished his training in the office of Adler and Burling. […]
Fred A. Fiedler served as Acting Architect to the Chicago Board of Education for the last two months of 1898, following the discharge of Normand S. Patton. Fiedler had apparently been second in command to Patton since Patton’s election as Architect in December, 1896. Fiedler’s signature appears on drawings for both the Gallistel and Ray […]
Ca. 1880 by Burnham and Root (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 or GFDL], via Wikimedia Commons A native of Elbing, Germany, William August Fiedler (who generally went by the name August Fiedler) received his architectural training in Germany. He immigrated to America in 1871, stopping first in New York, where he married the following year. Within a […]
John H. Edelmann was a partner in the short-lived firm of Johnston & Edelmann, best known for nurturing a young Louis Sullivan. Johnston & Edelmann designed the 1873 King School (on Harrison Street, near Western) and five other elementary schools – including the Ward School on South Shields Avenue, now a Chicago landmark – in […]
Chicago architect Julius Sigismund Ender was born in Korningsberg, Germany, in 1851, and immigrated to the United States in 1870. By 1875, Ender was practicing architecture in Chicago, where he became a naturalized citizen later that year. Ender was one of three architects – the others being Frederick Baumann and James Willett – who served […]
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