Ragdale is the former summer retreat of Chicago architect Howard Van Doren Shaw, located in Lake Forest, Illinois, United States. It is also the home of the Ragdale Foundation, an artist residency program that hosts creators from a number of disciplines: nonfiction and fiction writers, composers, poets, play- and screenwriters, visual artists, choreographers, as well as those from interdisciplinary interests.
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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.