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Surname Flanders
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Bev Gillihan (bgill2)
Date submitted Oct 16, 2005

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FLANDERS, ANNETTE HOYT (Mrs. Roger Hale Flanders)
:: A landscape architect, died June 7, 1946, at her home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, aged fifty-seven. She studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. She was associated with the New York firm of Vitale, Brinkerhoff & Geiffert. In 1922, she opened her own office in that city. She received the New York Architectural League medal in 1932 and was a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects. WWAA IV - 1940-47.

FLANDERS, JOHN J.
:: F.A.I.A. - An architect, died at Glencoe, Illinois, May 6, 1914. He was born in that city June 30, 1874. He obtained his education in the offices of T. V. Wadskier, W. W. Boyington, and Burlington & Adler. He practiced at first with Charles Furst under the name of Furst & Flanders. For eight years he was the architect of the Board of Education of Chicago and then formed a partnership with W. Carbys Zimmerman. Among prominent buildings designed by Mr. Flanders in Chicago are the Haymarket Theater and the Maller's Office and Bank Buildings, now the La Salle Street Trust and Savings Bank. He was elected a member of the Western Association of Architects in 1884 and became a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1889. He was also a member of the Illinois Chapter of the A.I.A. XI - 1914.



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