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Charles E. Fox was born in 1870 at Reading, Pennsylvania, United States.
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The Steger Building, 28 East Jackson Blvd., Chicago
(The building was the first high-rise building designed by...)
The building was the first high-rise building designed by Marshall and Fox and is today a designated Chicago landmark.
Drake Hotel (Chicago)
(Marshall,Benjamin; Fox, Charles Eli)
Marshall,Benjamin; Fox, Charles Eli
CHARLES E FOX
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He studied architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Career
Mr. Fox began his career in Chicago as draftsman in the office of Holabird & Root, leaving there in 1905 to join Benjamin Marshall in partnership. In the ensuing years the firm enjoyed a large and successful practice, planning many important buildings in Chicago and other large cities. Their works were varied, comprising hotels, commercial buildings, theatres and hospitals, of which the following were noted examples: the Blackstone Hotel (1910), awarded the A.I.A. Medal of Honor that year; the Morrison Hotel (1915); Drake Hotel (1919); Edgewater Beach Hotel (1921); Federal Life Insurance Building (1912); Standard Oil Building; Burlington Office Building; Sheridan Trust and Savings Bank (1924); Lake Shore Trust & Savings
(1921); South Shore Country Club and the John B. Murphy Hospital. In addition to the above the firm designed the Schaff Building at Philadelphia (1917); Northwestern Mutual Life Building in Milwaukee (1914); Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia; and the Maxine Elliot Theatre in New York.
During the first World War Mr. Fox devoted all his time to architectural work for the American Red Cross, and designed hospitals at practically all Army Camps in the country as well as in some locations in Europe.
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October 31, 1926 (aged 56) -
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