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Nathaniel Owings
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Nathaniel Owings

American architect and engineer
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  • Willis Tower
    Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
    / Founding and early projects

    …1936 architects Louis Skidmore and Nathaniel Owings, brothers-in-law who had worked together on the 1933–34 world’s fair, founded an architecture firm in Chicago and in 1937 opened a second office, in New York City. Two years later they were joined by engineer John Merrill. The firm, which adopted the name…

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    …1936 architects Louis Skidmore and Nathaniel Owings, brothers-in-law who had worked together on the 1933–34 world’s fair, founded an architecture firm in Chicago and in 1937 opened a second office, in New York City. Two years later they were joined by engineer John Merrill. The firm, which adopted the name…

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