Background
Erdman was born Mausas Erdmanas on September 29, 1922, in Tverai, Lithuania.
Erdman was born Mausas Erdmanas on September 29, 1922, in Tverai, Lithuania.
Following high school, Erdman studied architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He joined the United States Army Corps of Engineers in 1943, where he helped build the Remagen pontoon bridge. He returned to his studies after the war, receiving a Bachelor of Surgery in Political Science from the in 1946.
He emigrated to the United States at age 17 to live with an uncle in Chicago. Education Erdman started a construction company in 1946, which he incorporated in 1951 as Marshall Erdman & Associates. An integrated healthcare design-build company, Marshall Erdman & Associates grew rapidly, expanding into six different markets throughout the United States. In early 2008, Marshall Erdman & Associates was purchased by Cogdell Spencer, a healthcare real estate investment trust, for $247 million.
In addition to founding Marshall Erdman & Associates, he introduced U-Form-lieutenant prefabricated house kits to the market in 1953 and Techline office furniture in 1969.
Legacy The Middleton Hills neighborhood in Middleton, Wisconsin had its first homes completed in 1996. This development is considered a Neo-traditional design.