Lecture and Book Signing: Inventing the New American House: Howard Van Doren Shaw, Architect

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Lecture and Book Signing
Inventing the New American House:  Howard Van Doren Shaw, Architect
 
Come celebrate, and learn more about, one of our own local treasures – architect Howard Van Doren Shaw! Join the Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Historical Society for a lecture and book signing with Stuart Cohen, author of the new book Inventing the New American House: Howard Van Doren Shaw, Architect. The program takes place on Saturday June 13, 2015 at 2:00 pm at the Gorton Community Center.  Tickets are $10 for Historical Society members and $15 for non-members and can be purchased at www.lflbhistory.org or by calling 847-234-5253.
 
Cohen offers a new look at one of the best-known designers of the early 20th century whose name was largely forgotten on a national level after his untimely death at age 56. Cohen tells the story of the man who built homes for the leading industrialists of his era – Reuben H. Donnelley of printing fame, newspaper giant Joseph Medill Patterson, Edward Forster Swift, the meatpacking mogul, and Bertram G. Work, president of the B.F. Goodrich Company – hoping to bring his work back into the public eye.
 
Inventing the New American House features many previously unpublished images from the Shaw Archive in the Burnham and Ryerson Library at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Chicago History Museum. It contains rare construction drawings, new color photography and a catalogue of Shaw’s residential work. The text details the lives of the prominent homeowners and interesting facts about their business dealings, providing an historical glimpse into the era.
Books will be available for purchase for $65 at the event from the Lake Forest Bookstore.