Background
Eric Edwin Hall was born in 1883 in Sweden.
Eric Edwin Hall was born in 1883 in Sweden.
Shortly after his arrival in Chicago he opened an office in 1913 under the name of Hall & Westland, a firm that was succeeded a year later by Hall & Ostergren, and in 1925 reorganized as Hall, Lawrence & Radcliff, Inc. As County Architect he was identified with the design of the Oak Forest Infirmary; Cook County Nurses’s Home; County Hospital for Children; Juvenile Detention Home, and the Cook County Criminal Court and Jail Buildings, all in Chicago, the latter completed in 1929, his outstanding architectural achievement.
