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...Commission: Chairman Harvey Wiley Corbett (New York); Edward Herbert Bennett (Chicago); Hubert Burnham (Chicago); John Augur Holabird (Chicago); Raymond Mathewson Hood (New York); Ralph Thomas Walker (New York); Paul Philippe Cret (Philadelphia); Arthur Brown Jr. (San Francisco...
...flour counter of the nation's chief grocery store, the new building is decorated throughout with a grain motif by Architects John Auger Holabird and John Wellborn Root. The entrance grill bristles with fuzzy sheaves and kernels, grain garnishes the elevator doors, flanking the clock outside stand a wheat-raising Egyptian and a corn-fed Amerindian. Ripe wheat heads were thrust into the hands of visitors on the opening day as they peeped into the main trading floor, 113 ft. x 163 ft., where business was going on as usual in the wheat pit (38 ft. across) and nearby...
...inevitable that the success of Holabird & Root should encourage the modernist faction in the Architectural League. Added to this, perhaps a larger proportion of the exhibits than ever before displayed the influence of utility and simplicity. Even in domestic architecture there were more plain surfaces, less elaborately romantic Tudor, more convenience and less picturesqueness...
...Holabird & Root are both sons of able architects. John Augur Holabird's father, William Holabird, established the firm of Holabird & Roche early in the century. Son John, 43, was born in Evanston, went to the Hill School, to West Point, to the Beaux-Arts. In 1919 he joined his father's firm, helped design the Chicago Temple Building, Grant Park Stadium (Soldier Field, famed scene of Tunney's second victory over Dempsey), Palmer House, Stevens Hotel, all of Chicago...
...succeeded to the name and profession of his father who was chief architect of the Chicago World's Fair until his death in 1891. After Cornell and the Beaux-Arts, John Jr. won third prize in the competition for the Chicago Tribune Building. The firm was reorganized as Holabird & Root...