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  George Grant Elmslie
George Grant Elmslie was born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland on February 20, 1871 and emigrated to Chicago in 1884.
Elmslie was awarded fellowship status by the American Institute of Architects in 1947.
Elmslie died on April 23, 1952 and was buried in Graceland Cemetery in Chicago.
www.prairiestyles.com /elmslie.htm   (388 words)

  
 Unified Vision > The Collection > William Gray Purcell and George Grant Elmslie
In 1909 Elmslie's twenty-year employment with Sullivan came to an end, and Purcell encouraged him to join the Minneapolis partnership.
Elmslie's entry into the partnership brought an added complexity of composition and ornamental design, tying their work more directly to Louis Sullivan's decorative tradition.
Purcell and Elmslie's architecture is characterized by open floor plans with the hearth as a focal point, versatile rooms that served multiple functions, custom designed built-in and free-standing furniture, and large bands of windows to take advantage of the light at various time of day.
www.artsmia.org /unified-vision/collection/purcell-elmslie.cfm   (278 words)

  
 PrairieMod: Purcell & Elmslie: A Crash Course   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
William Gray Purcell and George Grant Elmslie were progressive American architects who were the second most commissioned firm of practicing Prairie School architects after Frank Lloyd Wright.
Both Purcell and Elmslie worked for periods of time in Louis Sullivan's office before moving into their own practices (Purcell and Feick in 1907; Purcell, Feick and Elmslie in 1910; and Purcell and Elmslie in 1913).
Elmslie was especially influenced by Louis Sullivan's style of ornamentation design and ultimately surpassed the master in his ability to dream up beautifully complex decorative patterns.
prairiemod.typepad.com /prairiemod/2006/11/purcell_elmslie.html   (469 words)

  
 EOA | Elmslie Osler Architect
The founding principal, Robin Elmslie Osler, is a graduate of Yale School of Architecture and a fellow of the American Association of University Women.
Her great-uncle, architect George Elmslie, was a leader of the Prairie School movement and his works are in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Composition is dead; an organization is alive...vivid...responsive to conditions; and eloquent of the spiritual association of function and form.
www.eoarch.com /index.html   (711 words)

  
 ArtsNet Minnesota: Designing Spaces and Places
He had some definite ideas for his new house.
With the help of his business partner, George Elmslie, he designed the house he imagined and brought it to life.
Let's look first at the kind of house Purcell didn't want.
www.artsconnected.org /artsnetmn/spaces/cutts/cutts1.html   (63 words)

  
 George Grant Elmslie, Plan New Home for Aged Scots
One of the least celebrated Chicago architects of the twentieth century is George Grant Elmslie.
Elmslie was born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, near the town of Huntly.
George Elmslie died in 1952 and is buried in Graceland Cemetery in Chicago along with his mentor, Louis Sullivan.
www.chicago-scots.org /clubs/History/Newsletters/2000/Oct00-2.htm   (521 words)

  
 Chicago - The City in Art
The new construction was to honor Helen Peirce’s long-standing commitment to early childhood education and her belief in the need for children to develop in aesthetically pleasing surroundings.
The school asked three well-known contemporary Chicago artists George Grant Elmslie, Jens Jensen, and John Warner Norton to carry out the project.
Elmslie, a long-time associate of Louis Sullivan, designed the kindergarten space in Prairie School style.
www.artic.edu /aic/students/mural_project/pages/M_peirce.html   (274 words)

  
 Prairie Style
The three main architects of the Prairie School were George Washington Maher, George Grant Elmslie, and Frank Lloyd Wright.
George Washington Maher developed his own "Motif Rhythm Theory".
George Grant Elmslie designed the most decorative furniture pieces.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/design_styles_retired/39656   (389 words)

  
 artnet.com Magazine Reviews - Garrett's Attic
In fact, most of the Prairie-style houses were built not on the prairie but on suburban or city lots.
In 1913, William Gray Purcell (1880-1965) and George Grant Elmslie (1869-1952) designed a private home that remains one of the most significant examples of Prairie School architecture in the country.
The house, at 2328 Lake Place in Minneapolis, was built for Purcell's own family and incorporates his talents for domestic planning with Elmsie's ingenious and exacting decorative detail.
www.artnet.com /Magazine/reviews/garrett/garrett12-7-00.asp   (1183 words)

  
 George Grant Elmslie / Side chair / c. 1914
George Grant Elmslie / Side chair / c.
This image is one of over 118,000 from The Art Museum Image Consortium Library (The AMICO Library™), a growing online collection of high-quality, digital art images from 39 museums around the world.
AMICO PUBLIC RIGHTS: a) Access to the materials is granted for personal and non-commercial use.
www.davidrumsey.com /amica/amico13217776-102224.html   (263 words)

  
 PHONE-SOFT INTERNET DIRECTORY INTERNATIONAL:ELMSLIE, GEORGE GRANT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
George Grant Elmslie - Biography and photograph of the Scottish-born Prairie Style architect from a site associated with "The Airplane House", Woods Hole, Mass.
Purcell and Elmslie - Extensive overview of firm's work, largely drawn from the Northwest Architectural Archives at the University of Minnesota.
Washington Irving Elementary School - Article from Education Week regarding the possible demolition of Elmslie's 1937 school building.
www.phs2.net /cwi/L3/oa661i.htm   (133 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "George Grant Elmslie": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Of these 117 were by Sullivan, fifteen by others (six by George Grant Elmslie, two by Wright, and seven by unknown draftsmen).' No one knows if Sullivan chose them for Wright or permitted his...
The Prudential commission brought to the fore the peculiar talents of George Grant Elmslie, who had joined the office of Adler and Sullivan in 1890.
There was George Grant Elmslie, who would design some of the most glorious small buildings of the twentieth century; Paul Mueller, a brilliant construction engineer...
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 George Grant Elmslie-help!
George Grant Elmslie did a few designs for stained glass....
I like what I once saw but can't locate the original book which had photos of his work in it.
: George Grant Elmslie did a few designs for stained glass....
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 Village of Hinsdale - Historic Preservation Commission
Others, including Patton & Fisher and George Grant Elmslie, designed only one structure in the area, yet those structures have become local landmarks.
During the 1890s he worked in a variety of styles, his Shingle and Queen Anne projects were widely reviewed in the Inland Architect journal during this time period.
By the late 1890s his work began to reflect characteristics of the Prairie style and he is considered on the pioneer Prairie style architects along with Frank Lloyd Wright, Purcell & Elmslie, and Walter Burley Griffin.
www.villageofhinsdale.org /history/learningArchitects.php   (1708 words)

  
 Elmslie, George Grant E Architects History Architecture Arts
Elmslie, George Grant E Architects History Architecture Arts
- Brief profile of 1926 building designed by Elmslie in association with Herman von Holst.
Arts- Architecture- History- Architects- E- Elmslie, George Grant
www.iaswww.com /ODP/Arts/Architecture/History/Architects/E/Elmslie,_George_Grant   (120 words)

  
 Product >> Ceiling fixture for the Mrs. Richard Pol >> Wright @ Architonic
This ceiling fixture comes from the house of Mrs.
Polson was a wealthy Chicago woman who commissioned Purcell and Elmslie to build this modest house as a wedding present for her son, D. Brockett and his wife Nan.
The house is on the National Register of Historic Places and this bronze fixture is listed in the register as designed by Purcell and Elmslie.
www.architonic.com /4103963   (63 words)

  
 :: Purcell and Elmslie, Architects ::
Works by George Grant Elmslie following the dissolution of the Purcell and Elmslie partnership were carried out through a separate accounting system (starting at 251).
This number sequence includes designs done as George Elmslie and Associates (largely with Lawrence A. Fournier, but also with contributions by former PandE chief drafter Frederick A. Strauel), as well as projects where Elmslie was associate architect with Hermann V. von Holst and William S. Hutton.
In addition, there are a number of design studies for 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 Room Houses.
www.organica.org /peggejobs.htm   (128 words)

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