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Service Buildings for the Henry B. Babson residence
Purcell and Elmslie
Riverside, Illinois 1915
Images
21 images
are also available from the University of Minnesota digital database.
 Illustrations of this building appear on page 578 of "George Grant Elmslie and the Chicago Scene," by Talbot Hamlin in Pencil Points (September, 1941) |
 Illustration of this building appears in the catalog for the "Purcell & Elmslie, Architects" exhibition at the Walker Art Center in 1953 |
Texts
- Note, by William Gray Purcell
This "clarification" by Purcell sorts out the various projects and the differentiation of credit for work on the house by Sullivan and Elmslie, and the authorship of the Service Buildings by P&E. Mentioned are the costs and personnel involved in the creation of these "ancillary structures" for the Babson estate, as well as some human foibles concerning other decorative work.
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13 images are available from the Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record at Library of Congress. This link goes to a summary page on my server, with a link to the HABS site for download of higher resolution versions of the thumbnails. All of these images were taken by Richard Nickel in 1967 and can be examined in detail, along with other materials related to preservation of the Service Buildings. [Okay, I couldn't choose just one thumbnail, and broke the style sheet here]
research courtesy mark hammons