Edwin Colvin House
- Architect
- George W. Maher
- Year
- 1909
- Style
- Prairie School
- City
- Chicago, IL
The Edwin Colvin House at 5940 North Sheridan Road was built in 1909 in the Prairie style by George W. Maher for Edwin M. Colvin, a printing executive who rose to lead F.W. Hall Printing Company after moving to Chicago in 1885. The city designated it a Chicago Landmark on October 5, 1994.
the building
Echoes of Pleasant Home. Published in Architectural Record in February 1916, the Colvin House design echoes Maher's earlier Prairie houses, including Pleasant Home for John Farson and the A.B. Leach house. Its roof is topped in Ludowici clay tile.
the style
The house is executed in Maher's Prairie idiom, the same style he used for Pleasant Home a decade earlier, and the design was prominent enough to be published in Architectural Record in 1916.
More on Prairie Schoolthe architect
George W. Maher was a leading Prairie School architect in Chicago; the Colvin House, alongside Pleasant Home and the A.B. Leach House, is among the Prairie residences that defined his career.
significance
The Colvin House was designated a Chicago Landmark on October 5, 1994.
nearby
- Perkins-Nordine House
- Episcopal Church of the Atonement and Parish House
- Gauler Twin House
- Belle Shore Apartment Hotel
- Edgewater Beach Hotel
- Manor House