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About John Wellborn Root, Jr.
John Wellborn Root, Jr. (1887–1963) was a significant United States architect based in Chicago. He was the son of architect John Wellborn Root. As a young man, he graduated from Cornell University and studied architecture at Paris' École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, where he became friends with John Augur Holabird, the son of another famous Chicago architect. Root returned to the States and joined his friend on the architectural staff at Holabird & Roche in 1919.
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John Wellborn Root, Jr.'s Timeline
1887 |
July 14, 1887
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1963 |
October 1963
Age 76
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