Alfred P. Shaw (May 13, 1895 – December 1, 1970) was an American architect based in

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. He worked at Graham, Anderson, Probst & White, then in various partnerships, and headed his Alfred Shaw and Associates firm. He was a director for the

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. The Smithsonian has a collection of his documents including correspondence with Alexander Calder. Shaw was born in

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to Enoch Shaw and Ellen Phillips Shaw. He studied at St. John's Preparatory School in

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and the Boston Architectural Club Atelier. He worked in Boston and then New York before settling in Chicago with Graham, Anderson, Probst & White in 1922. He became a junior partner in 1929. He was chief architect for the

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. and worked with Sigurd Naess at the firm. After he was fired in 1936 following the death of Ernest Graham he formed Shaw, Naess and Murphy with Naess and C. F. Murphy. Other partnerships followed including Shaw Metz Dolio, Shaw Metz, and Alfred Shaw Associates. Shaw served in the Aviation Section of the Army Signal Corps during World War I. He married Rue Winterbotham and had two sons Patrick and Joseph.

Work

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* McCormick Place exposition hall *

* Marshall Field & Co. downtown Chicago store *

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* Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago) interior *

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