Andrew Rebori

Andrew Nicholas Rebori (February 21, 1886 – May 31, 1966) was an American architect who was a member of the Chicago school of architecture.

Life and work

Early life Born in New York City, Rebori was the son of an engineer who had immigrated to the U.S. from Italy. Rebori was friends during his childhood with future presidential nominee Al Smith. At age 15, Rebori began working in the office of New York architect Charles Alling Gifford making blueprints, and he also worked for architect Herbert D. Hale. Rebori finished evening high school at age 18. Later in Rebori's teen years, he studied under New York architect Henry Hornbostel.

From 1905 until 1907, Rebori attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he met his future wife, Nannie Prendergast of Wheaton, Illinois, whose farm adjoined that of the parents of Chicago Tribune publisher Robert R. McCormick. Rebori and Prendergast married in 1913. From 1908 until 1909, Rebori studied in the Ecole des Beaux Arts, subsequently working for the neo-classical architect Cass Gilbert in New York. Rebori's firm eventually dissolved in 1932, and he worked in private practice by himself until 1940. He performed various wartime projects from 1941 until 1944, and then worked as a consulting architect for DeLeuw, Cather & Co. from 1944 until 1955. Rebori also worked in private practice from 1952 until 1961, when he retired. "The architect is no longer an individualist, he is a follower," Rebori told the Chicago Tribune . "Today's architects just want to please their patrons." (December 22, 1963)

Rebori had two children. His son, Andrew P. Rebori (1916–1952), an army aviator during World War II, died of polio on September 15, 1952. Rebori's daughter, Naneen (sometimes shown as being spelled Nanneen) Rebori Donaldson (1914–1996), died on June 15, 1996. Rebori's wife, Nannie, died on May 16, 1917, in Chicago and after her funeral in Winfield, Illinois. near their summer home, she was buried in Calvary Cemetery, Illinois.

Rebori died at his home at 6 E. Scott Street in Chicago on May 31, 1966. He is buried in Graceland Cemetery in Chicago. Chicago Riding Club / CBS Studios, 630 N. McClurg Ct. in Chicago, 1922 Racquet Club of Chicago, 1365 N. Dearborn Street in Chicago, 1923 Fine Arts building annex, 421 S. Wabash Avenue in Chicago, 1924 Residence of Wayne Chatfield-Taylor, 620 Lake Road, Lake Forest, Illinois, 1925 Elizabeth Arden building, 70 E. Walton Place in Chicago, 1926 Sterling building at 737 N. Michigan Avenue in Chicago (demolished 1974) Madonna Della Strada Chapel at Loyola University Chicago, 1929 1325 N. Astor Street co-op building, 1929 Cudahy Memorial Library at Loyola University Chicago, 1930 LaSalle-Wacker Building, 221 N. LaSalle Street in Chicago, 1930 (with Holabird & Roche) House at the 1933 Homes of Tomorrow Exhibition, 1933 Fisher Studio Houses, 1209 N. State Street in Chicago, 1936 Dr. Philip Weintraub House, 3252 W. Victoria Street in Chicago, 1940 Administration building and barracks, Glenview Naval Air Station (consulting architect), 1940s Burial memorial for Robert R. McCormick at Cantigny in Wheaton, Illinois, dedicated 1957 1st Infantry Division museum at Cantigny in Wheaton, Illinois, dedicated 1960