Margaret Zirkel Young

Margaret Zirkel Young Headshot (1972)

Name: Margaret Zirkel Young

Date of Birth / Location: 1941 / Southern Germany

Education: Graduated from Nicholas Senn High School in Chicago in June 1960 with 3 college credit courses and 2 years of Mechanical Drafting (in lieu of typing, sewing or home economics). University of Illinois at Navy Pier Undergraduate Campus (1960-1963). Illinois School of Real Estate Appraising in Chicago, Illinois (1961). Earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana (1963-1966). Real Estate Education Co. School, Chicago, Illinois (1981-1982).

Firms and Partnerships Walter R. Kuehnle and Co. Real Estate Appraisers, 1960-1963; Franz Lipp and Associates, Landscape Architects,1964-1965. Robert J. Smith Architect, 1966; George A. Hinds & Associates Ltd. Architects, 1966-1969; Ezra Gordon & Jack M. Levin & Associates, 1969-1986 and as an Associate from 1974-1986; Project Manager as part of the Executive Management Team with Arthur Andersen & Co. and Accenture 1986 - 2002.

Professional Organizations & Activities: Registered Architect, State of Illinois, 1971. National Council of Architectural Registration Boards, 1974. Founding Member of Chicago Women in Architecture, 1974. Corporate Member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), 1975. Registered Real Estate Broker in the State of Illinois, 1982. Teamed with architects Betty J. Ritter, Alyce Knight, and Celia Pew to create the Triton College sponsored video, “Shadows on the Landscape,” a 34-minute video to stimulate the interest of high school students in architecture as a profession.

Primary Field: Architect

Work History:

Newberry Plaza, 1974, at 1000 North State Street Chicago, Illinois (Ms. Young held the role of Project Architect with overall responsibilities from Design Development through Construction Phases for this project.)
River Plaza, 1976-1977, at 405 North Wabash Avenue Chicago, Illinois (Ms. Young held the role of Project Architect with overall responsibilities from Design Development through Construction Phases for this project.)
400 East Ohio Street, Chicago, Illinois, 1983.

Additional Information:

The Founders of Chicago Women in Architecture (CWA). From the Illinois Alumni News 1978.

Margaret Zirkel Young Resume as of 1986

A Collection of News Articles Featuring Margaret Zirkel Young

Margaret Zirkel Young – Photographs from the Construction of Newberry Plaza 1972-1974

More News Articles Featuring Margaret Zirkel Young

Margaret Young’s Education Initiative Shadows on the Landscape

Shadows on the Landscape

Sources:

Margaret Young (architect) in discussion and correspondence with Cray M. Kennedy, June 25 - July 23, 2021.

Young, Margaret Zirkel in BWAF Dynamic National Archive

ahd1050083 - AIA Historical Directory of American Architects - AIA Historical Directory of American Architects (atlassian.net)

Finding Aid of the Harriet Rochlin Collection of Material about Women Architects in the United States, feat. Margaret Young

(speaks of Margaret Young) Oral history of Ezra Gordon / interviewed by Annemarie Van Roessel, compiled under the auspices of the Chicago Architects Oral History Project, the Ernest R. Graham Study Center for Architectural Drawings, Department of Architec

https://digital-libraries.artic.edu/digital/collection/caohp/id/4252

Additional Images:

Margaret Zirkel Young on the Top Deck of Newberry Plaza (1972)

Margaret Zirkel Young at River Plaza from Building Design and Construction (1976)

River Plaza from Building Design and Construction (1976)

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Nancy Ann Abshire (Courtesy of CWA)

Nancy Ann Abshire

Name: Nancy Ann Abshire

Date of Birth / Location: Dayton, Ohio

Education: Bachelor of Arts in Interior Design, Northwestern University; Bachelor of Architecture, University of Illinois; 1965-1969

Firms & Partnerships: C.F. Murphy Associates 1961-1968; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), interior design department, also design architect and project manager on various architectural projects, 1968-2019, promoted to Associate 1988.

Professional Organizations & Activities: Chicago Women in Architecture, Founder AIA, RIBA, NCARB; Executive director of SOM foundation 2010-2019; National Trust of Great Britain; Architecture and Design Society of the Art Institute of Chicago; Chicago Architecture Foundation, Auxiliary Board Member since 1971

Awards & Honors: SAH award 2010; Chicago Women in Architecture Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award, 2021

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Name: Aileen Anderson Colville

Date of Birth / Location: November 1, 1905 / Illinois

Date of Death / Location: September 22, 1983 / Oak Park, Illinois

Firms & Partnerships: Architect for Sears, Roebuck & Co., 1937 (According to "Houses by Mail: A Guide to Houses from Sears, Roebuck & Company" by Katherine Cole Stevenson and H. Ward Jandl.) Aileen was part of the Modern Homes Division at Sears, Roebuck, & Co.

Professional Organizations & Activities: Chicago Women's Architectural Club (CWA), Secretary.

Edith C. Antognoli (circa 1965). Courtesy of the Park Forest Star.

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Name: Edith Antognoli

Date of Birth / Location: January 2 1912 / Georgetown, British Guiana

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Name: Iris Ashwell

Date of Birth / Location: August 16, 1897 / British Columbia, Canada

Date of Death / Location: November 5, 1987 / British Columbia, Canada

Education: University of British Columbia; Iowa State College; Ashwell also studied for two years in England with the urban planner Thomas Mawson.

Firms & Partnerships: Chief Land Planner for the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA), late 1940s-early 1950s.

Professional Organizations & Activities: Professional Women's Council Western Society of Engineers; American Society of Planning Officials; Professional Women's Club of Evanston, Illinois.

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Name: Anna Carmen Baird Walsh

Date of Birth / Location: 1872 / Quincy, Illinois

Date of Death / Location: August 17, 1936 / Chicago, Illinois

Professional Organizations & Activities: Member, National Women's Association of Commerce; Board member, Aviation Club of Chicago; Director, Woodlawn Trust and Savings Bank; Member, Men’s Association of Commerce

Adelaide Eunice Benham Hulla

Name: Adelaide Eunice Benham Hulla

Date of Birth / Location: 1871 / New York

Date of Death / Location: 1961

Education: Wellesley College, 1884-1890; AB from Cornell University, 1887-1890; Bachelor's of Science in Architecture, Chicago School of Architecture (a joint program with the Armour Institute, now Illinois Institute of Techonoly IIT, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago), 1902. Thesids: "A Group of University Buildings."

Firms & Partnerships: According to 1938-39 Cornell Alumni directory, Adelaide was in joint practice of architecture at 104 S Dearborn in Chicago, Illinois and in the 90 Schiller Building, Chicago, Illinois with her husband John Hulla.

Professional Organizations & Activities: Adelaide was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. (Courtesy of Martin Tangora)

Helen Bishoff

Name: Helen Bishoff

Firms & Partnerships: Interior Architect for Marshall Field & Co. in 1939

Katherine Brewster with her children Sara and Edward- Courtesy of Chicago History Museum

Katherine Brewster

Name: Katherine (Kate) Lancaster Brewster

Date of Death / Location: September 24, 1947 / Lake Forest, Illinois

Professional Organizations & Activities: Member of the Lake Forest Garden Club; Member of the Garden Club of America; President of the Chicago Public School Art Society

Awards & Honors: Legion of Honor for her work with the Chicago chapter of France Forever.

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Name: Isabel Ling Chan

Education: Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan (undergraduate); University of Minnesota (graduate)

Professional Organizations & Activities: American Institute of Architects (AIA)

Pao-Chi Chang- Courtesy of the Chicago Tribune

Pao-Chi Chang

Name: Pao-Chi Chang

Firms & Partnerships: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM); Alfred Swenson Pao-Chi Chang Architects

Professional Organizations & Activities: Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Professor; One of the founders of Chicago Women in Architecture (CWA)

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Name: Mary Colter

Firms & Partnerships: Mary Colter was named the official Architect and Designer for the Fred Harvey company in 1910, she held the position until she retired in 1940.

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Name: Sue Ann Conover

Date of Birth / Location: Pittsburgh, PA

Date of Death / Location: 2017 (Rockford, IL)

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Mary Ann Crawford in front of the Lindberg Construction Company building that she designed. Courtesy of the Chicago Daily Tribune.

Mary Ann Elizabeth Crawford

Name: Mary Ann Elizabeth Crawford

Date of Birth / Location: 1901 / Girard, Illinois

Date of Death / Location: December 19, 1988 / Springfield, Illinois

Education: Bachelor of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 1929; Master's of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 1930.

Firms & Partnerships: Holabird and Root, 1930s; Rand McNally, 1930s; Historical American Building Survey Work, 1930s; Montgomery Ward, n.d.; Private Practice, beginning in 1959; Designed offices, factories, displays, and machinery for Lindberg Engineering Company in the 1940s.

Professional Organizations & Activities: Chair of the Women’s Architectural Club; Officer for the Society of Western Engineers; Licensed Architect with the State of Illinois, 1941; Licensed Engineer with the State of Illinois, 1943. In 1978, some of Crawford's student drawings were featured in the "Chicago Women Architects: Contemporary Directions" exhibition at Artemisia Gallery in Chicago, Illinois. In 1980, her drawings were the focus of a solo exhibition titled "American Beaux-Arts" at the Frumkin-Struve Gallery in Chicago, Illinois.