W. CARBYS ZIMMERMAN

Background

W. Carbys Zimmerman was born in 1856 in Thiensville, Wisconsin, United States.

Education

He completed a two-year course in Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1880.

Career

Following a few years of practical training, he opened an office for practice in Chicago under the firm name of Flanders & Zimmerman.

During a period of more than two decades Mr. Zimmerman carried on professional practice in the city, commissioned to design varied types of public buildings there and elsewhere in Illinois. Notable examples of his work include the Supreme Court Building in Springfield; Physics Building at the University of Illinois (1906), and the Seventh Regiment Armory in Chicago.

He continued in practice until the mid twenties when he closed his office, but continued a resident of Chicago the rest of his life.

Works

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• Other Work

  • Supreme Court Building in Springfield

  • Physics Building at the University of Illinois

    1906

Membership

Early in his career (1886) Mr. Zimmerman became a member of the old Western Association of Architects, and three years later, following the merger of the Association with American Institute of Architects, he was taken into Institute Fellowship.

Connections

coworker:

John J. Flanders

In 1886, Mr. Flanders and William Carbys Zimmerman formed Flanders and Zimmerman.