John Augustus Nyden

John Augustus Nydén (March 25, 1878–September 4, 1932), was a Swedish-born American architect. Several buildings he designed are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Nyden served as State architect of Illinois in 1926 and 1927.

Biography John Augustus Nyden was born on March 25, 1878, in Nybygget neighborhood of Moheda, Sweden. Nyden studied at Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana. formerly Eastwood Beach Apartment Hotel, a hotel renovated as a condo apartment building American Swedish Historical Museum, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania George E. Van Hagen House (1912), Barrington Hills, Illinois Fountain Plaza Apartments (1922), 830-856 Hinman Avenue, Evanston, Illinois; NRHP-listed Victory Monument (1927), 35th Street and King Drive, Chicago, Illinois; NRHP-listed, he designed the monument which was sculpted by Leonard Crunelle Belmont–Sheffield Trust and Savings Bank Building (1928), 1001 West Belmont Avenue, Chicago, Illinois; NRHP-listed