The Charles N. Ramsey & Harry E. Weese House in Kennilworth (1908). The house was architect Harry (M.) Weese's boyhood home. It was originally sold by the Kenilworth Company to Charles N. and Katherine A. Ramsey. Charles was a sales manager for Rawson & Evans, a glass and window company. It was sold to Harry Ernest and Marjorie Weese in 1919. Weese graduated from Northwestern University and worked for N. W. Harris & Company (which would later be known as Harris Trust & Saving Bank and is today known as BMO Harris). He was elected Village Clerk in 1922, then later appointed to Village Treasurer in 1925, a position he held for seventeen years. Their eldest son, Harry Mohr Weese was born in 1915, when the family was living in Evanston. By the age of ten, the younger Harry Weese had decided that he wanted to be an artist or architect. He graduated from MIT in 1936 with a Bachelor of Architecture and received his first commission later that year. He attended the Cranbrook Academy of Art with his friend Eero Saarinen in 1938. Returning to MIT, Weese was offered a position as a designer with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in 1939. He left two years later to start an independent practice. A major figure in the mid-century modern architecture scene in Chicago, Weese is most famous for his First Baptist Church in Columbus, Indiana and for designing the stations for the Washington Metro. He was also passionate about historical preservation and led restorations to save endangered buildings such as the Auditorium Building and Orchestra Hall

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