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The prevailing view of his later career is that, as the public taste changed during the 1920s, Drummond's work bore fewer of the hallmarks of the
Prairie School. Instead, his work was sometimes characterized by English cottage and Tudor elements, many in River Forest, typified by the Edward W. Scott
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In 1907 Drummond married Clara Alice McCulloch
Christian, a woman several years his senior whose first husband died of tuberculosis. Their union produced three sons: Robert, William and Alan. In 1910, Mary Roberts, Isabel Roberts' mother, sold the property next to their celebrated River Forest, IL,
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Building. His entry was daringly original, with a huge tri-parti rectangular crown, perforated and carved in such a way that it defied conventional architectural descriptive terms. With oversize urn forms at the base of the crown, scooped recesses and geometric ornament at its summit, the building
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Drummond continued his independent practice thereafter, designing churches, residences and small commercial buildings in the
Prairie style, his work in the pure Prairie idiom culminating in 1920 in the delightfully elegant Hollywood Community House (also known as Hollywood House) in the Hollywood
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Chicago, in Austin, at 813 Central Avenue. William Drummond grew up in the village of Austin and attended the Austin public schools. The Drummond family house is standing as it underwent at the hands of William and Eugene. William learned much in the remodeling of the family house. He and his
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father built the present house around and over the old house, with the family still living in it. The family owned the house until 1966. William was fifteen years older than his brother Frank; there were five girls between them. All seven
Drummond children grew up in the village of Austin.
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Drummond took part in the planning commission of River Forest throughout the 1920s and 1930s, while also remodeling several of Wright's designs. Shortly before his death on September 13, 1948, Drummond published a book detailing a plan to redesign the United States Capitol.
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Congregational Church of Austin. In 1912 he went into partnership with Louis Guenzel, who had been a draftsman for
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that, had it been chosen, would have become an immediate and vibrant landmark on the
Chicago skyline, without harking back to any historic style (as did the winning entry by architects
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River Forest Women's Club (1913); 526 Ashland Avenue, River Forest, IL
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