Crow Island School

…Eero and his father designed Crow Island School in Winnetka, Illinois, which influenced postwar school design, being a one-story structure generously extended in plan and suitably scaled for primary-grade children. Also in 1940 he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. In 1945 Eero joined a partnership with Eliel…

…on such projects as the Crow Island School (1940) in Winnetka, Illinois, which influenced postwar school design, and the First Christian Church (1942) in Columbus, Indiana. Another church, Christ Lutheran, in Minneapolis, Minnesota (1949–50), was the elder Saarinen’s last completed building and considered by some his finest. His designs for…