What's cool about these is that TE Wells, the developer, had his initials put into ornament on the sides of the archway entrances. Wells came from money (father was a baron) and his son founded First American Bank.

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Thank you! When I was by there around a few weeks ago, I saw those panels and was puzzled by the TEW, but was too lazy to look it up 🫡

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This (and a facsimile built down the block a year later) was built by Thos. E. Wells, HH Waterman, arch. (the second one was DS Pentecost, arch), based on FLW's Francisco Apts. When built, this stretch of the drive was known as Honeymoon Row.

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An interview w/Richard Neutra in the Nov. 1969 issue: “I am Viennese by birth but I feel myself a Chicagoan.” He humorously claims for himself “a tiny statue near the Chicago River & a spot in Graceland Cemetery,” where he first met Frank Lloyd Wright at Louis Sullivan’s funeral.

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My stepdad: “The Super Bowl hasn’t been the same since the AFL–NFL merger.”

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