Lake Meadows Update #2
An update to the Lake Meadows post from a few days ago...
Pershing School (above) at Lake Meadows is the work of SOM architect Jim Scheeler, according former SOM'er Gertrude Lempp Kerbis FAIA in her highly-entertaining oral history documented by the Art Institute of Chicago. Kerbis herself designed an athletic club at Lake Meadows the National Trust said was demolished last month, but Draper & Kramer says only a private restaurant (scroll down to the comments section) on the site was taken down.
Meanwhile, preservationist Grahm Balkany tells me his research shows the Lake Meadows Professional Building (above) is also designed by Scheeler and that it was built in 1960, rather than 1971.
In addition, the late SOM partner Ambrose Richardson also worked on Lake Meadows and discusses it in his AIC oral history as well.
