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Working People's Cottages for Henry B. Babson, project
Purcell and Elmslie
Lyons, Illinois   1914

Parabiographies entry, Volume for 1910
Text by William Gray Purcell
for 1914

Job Date (in Parabiography): March 6, 1914

Working People's Cottages, Lyons, Ill.

Mr. Babson had some idea of going into an altruistic enterprise that should alleviate housing conditions among the lowest paid class of workers. We made some sketches and had various conferences on this project, but it was finally abandoned.
 


   Collection: William Gray Purcell Papers, Northwest Architectural Archives, University of Minnesota [AR:B4d1.8]
research courtesy mark hammons