Edward H. Bennett

Edward H. Bennett (around 1935)

Edward Herbert Bennett (born May 12, 1874 in Cheltenham , England ; † October 18, 1954 in Tryon , North Carolina ) was an American architect and city ​​planner , who is particularly known for his work on the Plan of Chicago .

Career

Edward H. Bennett was born to Edward Charles Bennett and his wife Margaret in Cheltenham in the Gloucestershire region in the south-west of the United Kingdom and grew up with five siblings in Bristol . In 1890, Bennett emigrated to the United States and initially settled near San Francisco . Until 1895 Bennett worked there as an assistant to the architect Robert White. On the advice of the architect Bernard Maybeck, Bennett finally went to Paris, where he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts , during which Bennett received financial support from the philanthropist Phoebe Hearst .

After graduating in 1902, Bennett returned to the United States and spent a brief period in New York City , where he worked for the architect George B. Post . This introduced Bennett to Daniel Burnham , for whom Bennett worked as an assistant from September 1904. While at Burnham, Bennett co-wrote the 1906 Plan of San Francisco and the 1909 Plan of Chicago .

In 1910, Bennett went freelance as an architect. In January 1913 he became a consulting architect for the Chicago Plan Commission . Bennett designed large parts of the Grant Park borough in the Chicago Loop , and he was the chief architect of the DuSable Bridge in downtown Chicago in the 1910s . In 1924 Bennett joined forces with the architectural offices of William E. Parsons and Harry T. Frost, with whom Bennett designed other plans based on the Plan of Chicago, including for Minneapolis , Detroit , Portland and Ottawa . From 1927 to 1937 Edward H. Bennett was chairman of the Board of Architects for the planning of the Federal Triangle in Washington, DC After the deaths of his business partners in 1939 and 1944, Bennett ended his activities as an architect.

Private

Bennett was married to Catherine Jones on October 18, 1913, and their son Edward H. Bennett Jr. was born in 1916. The family lived in Lake Forest , a suburb of Chicago . Catherine Jones died in May 1925 of complications from scarlet fever . On January 5, 1930, Bennett married his second wife, Olive Mary Holden Mead, who brought two children into the relationship; Bennett and Holden's marriage remained childless. In the same year Bennett bought a farm in Mettawa , where he lived from then on.

In January 1938 Bennett moved back to Lake Forest, he also had residences in Tryon , North Carolina , and in Abiquiú , New Mexico . Bennett died on October 18, 1954 at the age of 80 on his Tryon ranch.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bennett, Edward Herbert. In: Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada , accessed November 9, 2019.
2. ^ ^{A b} Life of Edward H. Bennett. In: edwardbennett.lakeforest.edu , accessed on November 9, 2019.
3. ↑ Edward H. Bennett. In: The Cultural Landscape Foundation , accessed November 9, 2019.