Howard Van Doren Shaw AIA was an architect in Chicago, Illinois. Shaw was a leader in the American Craftsman movement, best exemplified in his 1900 remodel of Second Presbyterian Church in Chicago. He designed Marktown, Clayton Mark's planned worker community in Northwest Indiana.
Shaw's Market Square (1916), the first planned shopping center in the United States
Shaw worked with Jenney & Mundie in the top floor of the Home Insurance Building in Chicago.
The Lakeside Press Building was Shaw's first major commission. Today it is recognized by the National Park Service as a historic place.
Shaw's Market Square was the nation's first shopping center designed for vehicles.
Second Presbyterian Church (Chicago)
Second Presbyterian Church is a landmark Gothic Revival church located on South Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, United States. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, some of Chicago's most prominent families attended this church. It is renowned for its interior, completely redone in the Arts and Crafts style after a disastrous fire in 1900. The sanctuary is one of America's best examples of an unaltered Arts and Crafts church interior, fully embodying that movement's principles of simplicity, hand craftsmanship, and unity of design. It also boasts nine imposing Tiffany windows. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974 and later designated a Chicago Landmark on September 28, 1977. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in March 2013.
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View of the remodeled sanctuary, c. 1902
Detail of Bartlett mural
Pastoral window by Tiffany Studios, 1917