Discipline: Architecture – text

Judith McBrien

Discipline: Architecture – text
Region: Wilmette, IL
MacDowell Fellowships: 2011

Judith Paine McBrien worked on a book about the writings of architect and urban planner Daniel Hudson Burnham (1846-1912). She directed the PBS film Make No Little Plans: Burnham and the American City, which broadcast nationally in 2010.

Studios

Putnam

Judith McBrien worked in the Putnam studio.

The Graphics Studio (as it was originally named) was converted to its present use in 1972–1974 through a grant from the Putnam Foundation, and originally served the property as both a power house and pump house. Well water was pumped from a large cistern to Hillcrest, the Foreman’s Cottage, and the lower buildings closer to…

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