Shaw, Howard Van Doren, 1869-1926

Haskins, Sylvia Shaw Judson, 1897-1978

Myers, Paul A. 

This is a modern replica, late 20th c., of a portrait plaque of AIA Gold Medalist architect Howard Van Doren Shaw, 1869-1926.  The original work in bronze was created ca. 1918-19 by the architect's sculptor daughter Sylvia Shaw (Judson, Haskins), 1897-1978. This polymer replica is the work of Shaw researcher and preservationist Paul A. Myers, of Marktown, East Chicago, IN  (www.marktown.org) and it was his gift to Lake Forest College's Special Collections.  This image was created in 2010-12 by Special Collections student intern Khamani Hagood '14.

Permission to create the replica, according to Myers, was given to him by Susan Dart.  Susan Dart McCutcheon (Mrs. John T., Jr.) was the granddaughter-in-law of the architect and author of the book Market Square (1984). The pioneering book provides information about and appreciation of one of his major works, Market Square (1916) Lake Forest, IL, the first shopping center in effect. It was the first town center planned around motor vehicles, the first such commercially self-supporting, the first REIT (1930), etc.  Dart's book also details Shaw's career, the fist such effort since his 1926 death, leading to further work by other historians (Virginia Greene, 1998, notably, and discussions in many other books and collections about Chicago and Lake Forest architecture).

Shaw was awarded the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects, 1926.  He and his firm had designed seven buildigs currently on the Lake Forest College campus: Calvin Durand Hall (Middle Campus, 1908), Glen Rowan (west of Middle Campus, 1909), Hixon Hall (South Campus, ca. 1910-12), and the western four faculty houses of Campus Circle (Middle Campus, 1916).  He also mentored as associates (1) Stanley D. Anderson (1920-25) who designed five campus buildings: Cleveland-Young (North Campus, 1926) and the four northeastern Campus Circle houses (Middle Campus, 1927) and (2) Bertram Weber (1919-1922), who designed the one-story ranch style home on the northeast corner of Sheridan and Rosemary Roads--east of South Campus.     

The replica is identical to the bronze original given by Dart to Myers, except for the re-incised lettering "Sylvia Shaw," done by Myers. 

Location: Dart Coll., with other Shaw material, 003.13.6.5 (folder on top of Hollinger boxes).

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