Robert Seyfarth was an American architect based in Chicago, Illinois. He spent the formative years of his professional career working for the noted Prairie School architect George Washington Maher. A member of the influential Chicago Architectural Club, Seyfarth was a product of the Chicago School of Architecture.
Robert Seyfarth
Photograph of a latticework porch by Robert Seyfarth on the front of a house he designed (likely the Bournique house at 421 [later 1509] Oakwood Av., Highland Park, IL [demolished]) which appeared in the June, 1916 edition of The Craftsman magazine. The article that accompanied the image had this to say about the design: The porch "...seems as perfect an architectural use for lattice as could be devised. There is a gracious hospitable informality about it that is most effective ... How delightfully simple are the design and proportion!"
The three buildings on the right were owned by the Seyfarth family and stood on the south-west corner of Grove St. and Western Ave. in Blue Island, Illinois. The white building in the center of the photograph was the tavern that William Seyfarth operated after he came to Blue Island in 1848. It originally stood on the corner, but was remodeled and relocated in 1880 when the building shown here on the corner was erected to house Edward Seyfarth's hardware store.
The Chicago Manual Training School building, 349-353 (now 1154) S. Michigan Avenue (Solon Spencer Beman, architect - 1884). After CMTS was acquired by the University of Chicago and moved to its Hyde Park campus in 1903 the building was occupied by Dearborn Medical College and The University of Illinois College of Pharmacy. It is no longer standing.
The Samuel M. Nickerson House, located at 40 East Erie Street in the Near North Side neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, is a Chicago Landmark. It was designed by Edward J. Burling of the firm of Burling and Whitehouse and built for Samuel and Mathilda Nickerson in 1883. Samuel M. Nickerson was a prominent figure in the rising national banking industry, who was said to have owned at one point more national bank stock than anyone else in the United States.
Samuel M, Nickerson House
Dining Room, 1886.
Reception Room, 1886.
Samuel M. Nickerson's Bedroom, 1886.
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