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Writings by Purcell and Elmslie

• The Parabiographies manuscripts
   

Writings about Purcell and Elmslie

• "Purcell and Elmslie, Architects," by Mark Hammons
  

  First monograph published on the work of the firm, a version of this essay appeared in Art and Life  on the Upper Mississippi, 1890-1915: Minnesota 1900, edited by Michael Conforti and published by University of Delaware Press in 1994.  The book is now out of print.  A much revised draft is presented here, with different archival illustrations and new images. Regrettably, I lacked the opportunity to proof a galley of the published text, and here some of the oversights and errors are also corrected.  In addition, I am not responsible for the photograph taken of the interior of Lake Place where the photographer actually put an old Persian rug on the living room carpet.  The complete horror of that overtakes me every time I look at the book.  WARNING: At the moment, this is a 294 KB download, and the draft requires some work to repair footnotes that didn't automatically convert from the original word processing version.
   

• "George Grant Elmslie and the Chicago Scene," by Talbot Hamlin

A piece that appeared in the September, 1941, issue of Pencil Points (predecessor title of Progressive Architecture).  The copy scanned here was altered by Purcell to ensure a more accurate credit, from his perspective, for Purcell and Elmslie as a partnership.

See also:

• P&E Writings and Publications page
• The Library (PDFs of contemporary texts referenced by Purcell and Elmslie as important to their thought)
• The Sampler (Selections of work by general authors liked or enjoyed by Purcell and Elmslie -- COMING)