Knight Cheney Cowles (1892-1970) Album, c.1929-1931

Knight Cheney Cowles, born in 1892, received a B.A. from Yale University in 1916, an M.Arch. from Harvard Univesity in 1922, and an Architecte Diplômès par le Gouvernement from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France, in 1925. He worked as a designer for the Chicago architecture firm of Holabird and Root from 1925 to 1928 and was later a partner in the firm of Cowles and Colean, Architects. He was a member of the Chicago Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Cowles died in May 1970.

The collection includes nineteen mounted black and white photographs from six different projects. These projects include the Lagerlof restaurant located in Chicago, Illinois (1929); the Morris Belknap residence in Louisville, Kentucky (1929); the Arthur D. Allen residence in Glenview, Kentucky (1929); the Farley Hopkins residence in Lake Forest, Illinois (1930); the Thomas and Hochwalt Laboratories in Dayton, Ohio (1930); and the Bowen residence in Lake Forest, Illinois (1931).

The photographs are arranged in the order in which they were bound in the portfolio.

• Names
  • Cowles, Knight Cheney, 1892-1970.
  • Cowles, Knight Cheney, 1892-1970--Archives.
• Subject
  • Architecture--Illinois--Chicago--20th century--Sources.
  • Architecture, Domestic--Kentucky--Louisville--20th century--Sources.
  • Architecture, Domestic--Kentucky--Glenview--20th century--Sources.
  • Architecture, Domestic--Illinois--Lake Forest--20th century--Sources.
  • Architecture, Industrial--Ohio--Dayton--20th century--Sources.
  • Architects--Illinois--Chicago--Archives.

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Knight Cheney Cowles Album, Ryerson and Burnham Art and Architecture Archives, The Art Institute of Chicago.

This album was a gift from Knight Cheney Cowles to the Ryerson and Burnham Libraries.

This album was transferred from the Ryerson and Burnham Libraries to the Ryerson and Burnham Archives in 2001.

The collection was processed by Jeffrey Massanova of the Ryerson and Burnham Archives in 2002. This finding aid was revised and expanded by Annemarie van Roessel in 2003.