Alfred Caldwell
| Alfred Caldwell | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 26, 1903 St. Louis, Missouri |
| Died | 1998 Bristol, Wisconsin |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Projects | Eagle Point Park, Dubuque, Iowa |
Alfred Caldwell (May 26, 1903 – 1998) was an American architect best known for his landscape architecture in and around Chicago, Illinois.
Caldwell and his wife, Virginia (1905 - 1988) had a daughter, Carol Caldwell Dooley, born on January 25, 1931 and a son, James Allen Caldwell, born on December 12, 1933. He received a Master of science in city planning from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1948.
Alfred Caldwell attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign but left before completing a degree. From 1926 to 1931 he worked for landscape architect Jens Jensen and had a two-year private practice thereafter. In 1933 he was appointed Superintendent of Parks for Dubuque, Iowa where he created Eagle Point Park. From 1936 to 1939 he was a landscape designer for the Chicago Park District and was the designer and architect of the Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool at Lincoln Park. In 1938 the Lily Pool project was nearing completion and the Chicago Park District,in an effort to save money, decided to cut the major wildflower plantings expenditure. Caldwell cashed in his $5000 life insurance policy for $250, bought thousands of plants, transported them from Sauk County, Wisconsin, and planted them around the lily pools with the help of four others. He was hired by Mies van der Rohe in 1944 to teach landscape architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) College of Architecture. Caldwell resigned in 1959 in response to a dispute with the college administration. In 1965 he taught at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and the following year he began teaching at the University of Southern California and stayed till 1973. In 1981 he returned to teach at IIT.
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