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Charles E. White, Jr.
Charles White was born in Lynn, Mass. and came to Chicago to work with Frank Lloyd Wright’s architectural practice in 1903. By 1905, White designed and built his own studio and collaborated with Wright and Vernon S. Watson on the River Forest Tennis Club in 1906. In 1909, his office had 15 different commissions listed in the Chicago Architectural Catalog, showing the success of his office. In 1912, White began to write a number of articles for House Beautiful and Country Life in America. For ten years he was a staff member for Ladies Home Journal. He showed no preference to Prairie School architecture while he illustrated his own work, but presented a rich variety of designs. He designed many buildings west of Oak Park with his partner, Bertram Weber, from 1923-1936. He designed several Oak Park buildings and among those were the Oak Park post office in 1933, and the Grace Episcopal Church Rectory. He was also very public-spirited, in that, he later became involved in slum clearance in Chicago’s north side and was Oak Park’s first chairman of the village’s zoning board. Buildings:
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