Born in Denmark, John C. Christensen immigrated to America with his family as a child. He began his career as a clerk of the works in the Architect’s Department for the Board of Education in 1906, during Dwight Perkins’s tenure. According to the 1906 Proceedings of the Board Education, in this position Christensen was one […]
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Born and educated in Germany, Frederick Baumann arrived in New York in July, 1850, and had come west to Chicago by September of that same year. In 1851, he joined the office of Chicago’s first professional architect, John M. Van Osdel. The following year, Baumann formed a partnership with Edward Burling. With Burling, Baumann built […]
Augustus Bauer was among Chicago’s most prominent early architects. Quoting a Chicago Tribune article published in 1873, Thomas E. Tallmadge, author of Architecture in Old Chicago, notes that in his day, Bauer was considered one of Chicago’s “best educated and most experienced architects.” A German immigrant, Bauer graduated with high honors from the Polytechnic school […]
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