CONTENTS
Acknowledgments 5
List of Illustrations 7
Crombie Taylor, Architect: The Biographical Study of an Artist 11
Preface 11
Introduction 12
Formal Training and Early Career 15
The Education of Crombie Taylor: The Institute of Design as Aesthetic Collective Taylor's Architectural Work 43
The Architect as Scholar: Taylor's Studies of Sullivan's Architecture 55
The Last Years 89
Conclusion 93
Notes 97
Photograph Sections 1 13
Crombie Taylor's Architecture: Plans and Photographs 11 5
Ross Dustin House, La Grange, Illinois 116
Murray Berg House, Homewood, Illinois 124
Mace Wenniger House, Dune Acres, Indiana 130
Laurence Goldberg House, Highland Park, Illinois 138
Irving Nuger House, Edmund Park, Illinois 148
Patrick Kearns House, Hinsdale, Illinois 154
Peter Jernberg House, Beverly Shores, Indiana 160
George Tagge House, Dune Acres, Indiana 166
Erne Frueh House, Highland Park, Illinois 170
Grant Place Apartments, Chicago, Illinois 178
Hull House Association Uptown Center, Chicago, Illinois 184
Paul Rosenbaum House, Rancho Mirage, California 196
Stencil Patterns horn Taylor's "Systems of Stencil Ornament of Louis Sullivan"
Auditorium Building, Chicago, Illinois 210
Garrick Building, Chicago, Illinois 230
Art Glass Windows and Skylights from Taylor's "Louis Sullivan: Midwest Masterpieces" 249
National Farmers Bank, Owatonna, Minnesota 250
Peoples Savings Bank, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 264
Home Building Association, Newark, Ohio 266
National Merchants Bank, Grinnell, Iowa 270
Purdue State Bank, West Lafayette, Indiana 280
Peoples'Savings and Loan, Sidney, Ohio 282
Farmers'and Merchants'Union Bank, Columbus, Wisconsin 288
Appendix A: "Open House, Institute of Design," Special Issue, Arts and Architecture 69 (July 1952) 299
Appendix B: Crombie Taylor's Architectural Projects, Awards and Honors, and Bibliography 303
Appendix C: Crombie Taylor's "Systems of Stencil Ornament of Louis Sullivan"
Lecture Notes, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 3 October 1968 307
Index 313