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S. S. Beman

(Beman, S. S. (Solon Spencer), 1853-1914)

Solon S Beman, the architect of Pullman, Chicago.
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Solon Spencer Beman (October 1, 1853 – April 23, 1914) was an American architect based in Chicago, Illinois and best known as the architect of the planned Pullman community and adjacent Pullman Company factory complex, as well as Chicago's renowned Fine Arts Building. Several of his other largest commissions, including the Pullman Office Building, Pabst Building, and Grand Central Station in Chicago, have since been demolished. Beman designed numerous Christian Science churches and influenced the design of countless more. (From Wikipedia)

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  • [Info] Beman, S. S. (Solon Spencer), 1853-1914, contrib.: Rand, McNally and Co.'s Handbook of the World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago: Rand, McNally and Co., 1893), ed. by Stuart C. Wade, also contrib. by Bertha Honoré Palmer, Countess of Aberdeen, Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Daniel Hudson Burnham, William Eleroy Curtis, Adler and Sullivan, William W. Boyington, Henry Ives Cobb, W. J. Edbrooke, Frank W. Grogan, Sophia Hayden, Jarvis Hunt, W. L. B. Jenney, Henry Van Brunt, and Francis Whitehouse

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