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CONCERNING HOWARD SHAW in HIS HOME by Frances Wells Shaw (1926) CONCERNING HOWARD SHAW IN HIS HOME by Frances Wells Shaw (1926) with Other Biographical Material Assembled by the Author and with a List of Some of Shaw's Architectural Work Compiled by his Daughter Evelyn Shaw McCutcheon, in 1977 Brought Together Here By Paul A. Myers for The Howard Van Doren Shaw Society 1997 © The Art Institute of Chicago All Rights Reserved CONCERNING HOWARD SHAW him He soon came down for the bag contained IN HIS HOME his baby, Evelyn, in her birthday clothes. By Frances Wells Shaw His first design, before we were married, 1926 was a house for my father in Lakeville, Conn. It was built by a contractor on Wells Hill while Making out the lists of the facts of Howard was studying and traveling in Europe. Howard Shaw's ancestry, education, honors, list That was the only time I ever knew him to desert of buildings, etc. has made me want to start a a house in process of construction. It still collection of photographs of his work with the stands with its gold cupola which, I am told, is dates and addresses where they may be seen. still photographed and sketched by students of Perhaps one of his four grandsons may become Colonial. an architect or even his granddaughter. The Next followed two gray Bedford stone material is scattered, mostly with the members of Tudor houses, now vinecovered, at 4843 and his former office. If I do not get them together, 4845 Lake Avenue. They were built with keen I hope someone else may go on with the work. anticipation for my sister, Mrs. Charles The material on hand seems so dry and Atkinson, and her husband, and for our own lifeless compared to the picture in my mind of selves with a door between on the second floor. his tireless zeal, personal activity and humorous I think they are as livable as any he ever built, ways. and you may see them across from the little For a picture of him as an architect, it Blackstone Library. Our house is still owned would be necessary to consult his office force, (1926) by the family to whom we sold it when the contractors, clients and workmen with whom we moved to the North side in 1911. he was associated. After these houses for family came the He first worked during his last college proud moment when he designed a brick barn in vacation as draughtsman in the office of Jenny Kenwood, and a small residence on East End and Munide (Louis Sullivan had done the same Avenue for Mr. Henry Thompson. We used to ten or twelve years before.) He was working walk by them of a summer evening, and after there when we were married in 1893 but about a that I remember no lull and the establishment of year later started out for himself in an attic on a real office in the old Montauk Bldg. down the top floor of his father's house at 2124 Calu- town. met Avenue. Robert Work was his one Writing of our first homes makes me draughtsman. I had not got used to his concen- want to tell a little of our marriage on April 20, trated ways at that time, and one day he did not 1893. I was twenty (plus 10 days) and he was answer the call to luncheon. So I sent up a large twenty (minus 16 days). I have no recollection paper bag tied at the top and had it left beside of becoming formally engaged to him. I had met him when he was the tallest boy in Bournique's 1899 Lake Forest, Ill. Ragdale on the dancing school on 23rd Street. I think we had Green Bay Road. Built by H.S. an "understanding", with a few ups and downs, from those days on. I have letters in the chest at 1909 Rented for winter Wm. Hibbard Ragdale to prove it. He just took me for granted house, 1618 Prarie Avenue. as his property, and I was pleased and flattered to be so considered. When he was at Yale and I 1910 Rented for winter John Jenkins at Farmington, he used to leave a box of marsh- house, 2625 Prarie Avenue mallows under the loose plank of the sidewalk in front of the house where I lived, and I would slip 1911 Own Apartment, top floor 1130 out after dark to get it. He was a draughtsman Lake Shore Drive. Built by H.S. at Jenny and Mundie and was getting $25.00 a week when we married. I was proud to wear his 1921 Rented apartment and studio for Grandmother's solitaire. Our two sets of parents Sylvia, 305 Fullerton Parkway. promised help if we got stuck, but we lived very frugally as he was of no mind to be helped 1923 Own apartment, 2450 Lake View beyond the wedding gift of the house in which Ave. to date. Built by H..S. we started housekeeping. In two years' time he was in his own downtown office, and I never Howard Shaw never had a partner. He knew him to have an idle moment. wished to do every detail himself. That trait was his undoing physically. He was impatient with Here are the homes in which we lived: anyone who did not do as well as himself. And 1893, after our marriage. Top floor he did everything well. Carpentry, brick-laying, 2906 Groveland Avenue with Charlesand tree planting, gardening, shingling, stone-laying, Martha Atkinson (my sister) dividing sign painting, stage setting, lighting effects and the housekeeping. scenery. At all these occupations he spent busy Saturdays and Sundays, as long as he could keep 1894 (during the building of our own upon his feet. I will never forget his skills with a houses - Atkinson's and ours - while the brick-layer's trowel, hitting off the corners of the Shaws were in Europe) at 2124 Calumet bricks, for a summer house, with half-timber Avenue. HS's office on top floor. work sides, in our back yard at 4843. It is still there. He and the gardener built the sleeping 1895 Own English Tudor house, 4843 porch off of our bedroom at ragdale. When he Lakeview Avenue. Atkinson, at 4843 got to the tin roof he sent for a roofer. The with door between. Built by H.S. union questioned the job, and next day three men stood in the drive and watched him staining the loved volume" by a villain. rafters and posts. He never looked up, and they He loved to have children around, his sent him a tin man that afternoon. own and the neighbors', and as a result, our He made a mould for the cement posts children always planned to spend their week- that holds the split rails that enclose our mead- ends playing at Ragdale. When he grew older, ows. It has been copied many times. He laid the his grandson did the same. I have a picture of brick rim of our fountain pool, and designed the little Jackie McCutcheon helping him carry one bowl, and asked me to find a suitable motto in end of a heavy plank down the grape arbor; and three lines of verse to go around the edge. I of the baby, Shaw McCutcheon, sitting watching hunted and hunted and finally submitted several him build the Berry-Patch Gate. to him, from which he chose: He always protested at going out to "Purling fountain cool and gray social affairs but, when there, he was always gay Tinkling music in thy spray and humorous and always glad that he had been Singing of a summer day" made to go. It was not very good poetry, but it filled the It is true that Howard Shaw rarely space to his satisfaction, and I never told him wanted to go out in the evening, but he had a until long after that I made it up! good excuse in addition to his hard day at his He did most of his designing for his office, or supervising buildings. From college buildings in his mind before he set to work. days he was the victim of a nervous intestinal Then he worked almost every evening of his life reaction in time of nervous strain. Examinations except when we went out, but it was not bad at school, public speaking, any worry always because he liked to have me read aloud to him brought on some physical weakness which while he worked. At first I could not believe vanished as quickly as it came. It never inter- that he could pay attention, so one night when fered with his work. He never took a vacation he looked particularly absorbed as I was reading unless urged by a doctor, and once away he Bleak House, I inserted, in a conversational usually became well and vigorous. Considering voice, the opening lines of the Declaration of what he accomplished with this serious handi- Independence. He looked up at once and told cap, one wonders how much farther he might me just what I was reading. We read chiefly have gone without. It was very hard for me to fiction or lighter essays, nothing very abstruse. be always getting him out of evening social He loved poetry and never went on a business engagements. I could not keep on giving illness trip without a volume in his suitcase. He once as an excuse when the disappointed hostess of left my Oxford Book of Verse on the train and the night before might see or hear of him at eight bought me a handsome replica with an inscrip- o'clock next morning superintending a building, tion in it to pacify me for the loss of my "well balanced on a slippery I-beam, five stories above the street with an icy wind blowing! - demon- the north part of the Ragdale property in imita- strating to a impressed foreman what he consid- tion of the outdoor theatre in the Villa Gori near ered to be a careful oversight.
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