The Curious Architecture Of Andrew Guilford
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the curious structures of Mr Gilford, one of the most curious of Chicago's architects, was a man named Andrew Guilford Throughout most of the 1920s. Guilford was an inexplicably fashionable architect for a certain subset of Chicago's landed gentry. His homes, while beautiful and unusually sturdy, weren't particularly original and certainly didn't seem so at the time, Guilford was designing in the wake of the much better known frank Lloyd wright. The appeal of Guilford's designs, it has been surmised stems from the fact that they were unusual without being too radical, just different enough to appeal to Chicago's burgeoning bourgeoisie. The key feature shared by all of his later buildings were strange and technically illegal secret rooms. Each Guilford design had a hidden room that in one way or another captured the essence of the rest of the house. one enthusiastic critic praised the secret rooms as being the architectural equivalent of faberge eggs. Historians have been arguing for decades now what the intended purpose of these rooms was. Some historians have suggested that they were rooms for illegal distilleries, private homes speakeasies, these extra chambers are often surprisingly spacious and extraordinarily secure. Nearly all are located under the building's foundation and black windows