John Wellborn Root, Jr.

John Wellborn Root, Jr. (1887 - 1963) was a significant U.S. architect based in Chicago. He was the son of architect John Wellborn Root. As a young man, he graduated from Cornell University and studied architecture at Paris' Ecole des Beaux-Arts, where he became friends with John Augur Holabird, the son of another famous Chicago architect. Root returned to the States and joined his friend on the architectural staff at Holabird & Roche in 1919. Af... more

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  • 1887

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  • 1963 (age 76 years)

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