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Encyclopedia > Zachary Taylor Davis

Zachary Taylor Davis (b May 26, 1872, Aurora, IL; d Dec. 16, 1946, Chicago.) Architect of three major chicago buildings; Old Comiskey Park (1910), Wrigley Field, a.k.a. Weeghman Field (1914), and St. James Chapel[1] (1918). Known as the Frank Lloyd Wright of baseball, Davis was one of the first architects to design ballparks with innovative steel-beam and concrete construction. Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ... Comiskey Park (35th Street & Shields Avenue, Chicago, Illinois) was the ballpark in which the Chicago White Sox played from 1910 to 1990. ... It has been suggested that Eamus catuli be merged into this article or section. ...


Davis, who also supervised a later Comiskey expansion to accommodate fans of the visiting Babe Ruth, graduated from the Armour Institiute of Technology. (now IIT). He lived at 45th and Drexal (Kenwood, Chicago), and was typical of the South Side at that time in that his accomplishments were made quietly. So quietly, that one historian refers to him as "the most significant lost architect in Chicago." IIT is an initialism of many institutes of technology, it may refer to: Illinois Institute of Technology, IIT Chicago Indian Institutes of Technology, premier technology institutes in India located at Kharagpur, Mumbai, Chennai, New Delhi, Kanpur, Guwahati and Roorkee Indiana Institute of Technology, also known as Indiana Tech, in Fort... Kenwood, located on the south side of Chicago, Illinois, is one of the official Chicago Community Areas. ...



 

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