Marshall Erdman

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Marshall Erdman
Personal information
Name Marshall Erdman
Nationality Lithuanian American
Birth date September 29, 1922(1922-09-29)
Birth place Flag of Lithuania Tverai, Lithuania
Date of death September 17, 1995 (aged 72)
Place of death Flag of the United States Madison, Wisconsin
Alma mater University of Wisconsin-Madison
Work
Practice name Marshall Erdman & Associates
Significant buildings

Marshall Erdman (September 29, 1922-September 17, 1995) was a Lithuanian-American builder and colleague of Frank Lloyd Wright.

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[edit] Life

[edit] Early life

Erdman was born Mausas Erdmanas on September 29, 1922, in Tverai, Lithuania. He emigrated to the United States at age 17 to live with an uncle in Chicago.

[edit] Education

Following high school, Erdman studied architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He joined the United States Army Corps of Engineers in 1943, where he helped build the Remagen pontoon bridge.[1] He returned to his studies after the war, receiving a B.S. in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1946.

[edit] Career

Erdman started a construction company in 1946, which he incorporated in 1951 as Marshall Erdman & Associates. An integrated healthcare design-build company, Marshall Erdman & Associates grew rapidly, expanding into six different markets throughout the U.S. In early 2008, Marshall Erdman & Associates was purchased by Cogdell Spencer, a healthcare real estate investment trust, for $247 million. This part of Marshall's legacy is now traded on the NYSE as CSA.

In addition to founding Marshall Erdman & Associates, he introduced U-Form-It prefabricated house kits to the market in 1953 and Techline office furniture in 1969.

[edit] Legacy

The Middleton Hills neighborhood in Middleton, Wisconsin had its first homes completed in 1996.

[edit] Work

[edit] Projects

  • 1949-1950: First Unitarian Society of Madison, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
  • 1956-1967: medical offices at Doctor's Park, Madison
  • 1957: Wyoming Valley School, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
  • 1958: Faith Baptist Church
  • 1959: 100 homes in Sherman Village, Madison
  • 1965-1966: Peace Corps camps at St. Croix and St. Thomas, Virgin Islands.
  • 1974: first modular medical building, Delbarton, West Virginia
  • 1975: first Marshfield Clinic building
  • 1989: Charlotte Memorial Hospital
  • 1993: Middleton Hills planned community, Middleton, Wisconsin

[edit] Awards

[edit] Resources

[edit] See also

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Lambert, Bruce. "Marshall Erdman, 72, Producer Of Prefabricated Structures, Dies", New York Times, 1995-09-29. Retrieved on 2008-02-02. 

[edit] References

  • Moe, Doug; Alice D'Alessio (October 2003). Uncommon Sense: The Life of Marshall Erdman. Trails Custom Publishing. ISBN 1931599319. 

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