George Edwin Bergstrom (1876 – 1955), aka Ed Bergstrom, was an American architect who designed the Pentagon. Before designing the Pentagon, he had designed the original Valley Inn in Neenah, Wisconsin.
Bergstrom was born in Neenah, Wisconsin, on March 12, 1876. He attended Phillips-Andover Academy, and was in the Yale University class of 1896. He took a Bachelor of Science degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1899.
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George Edwin Bergstrom (1876 – 1955), aka Ed Bergstrom, was an American architect who designed the Pentagon. Before designing the Pentagon, he had designed the original Valley Inn in Neenah, Wisconsin.
Bergstrom was born in Neenah, Wisconsin, on March 12, 1876. He attended Phillips-Andover Academy, and was in the Yale University class of 1896. He took a Bachelor of Science degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1899.
Bergstrom settled in Los Angeles, California, in 1901. In 1903, he married the former Nancy Kimberly, daughter of John A. Kimberly, a co-founder of Kimberly-Clark. They had two children; Alice Cheney Bergstrom and George Edwin Bergstrom, Jr.
From 1905 to 1915 Bergstrom was in partnership with architect John Parkinson. The firm of Parkinson & Bergstrom designed numerous public and private buildings throughout Southern California, and designed many of the major office and commercial buildings erected in downtown Los Angeles during this period. Among these were...
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