Ben Weese Papers
1925-2009 (bulk 1971-1997)
Benjamin H. Weese (1929-) Weese Langley Weese Cynthia Weese (1940-)
The architectural firm of Weese Langley Weese was founded in 1977 by the principals Cynthia Weese, Dennis Langley, and Ben Weese. Since its inception, Weese Langley Weese has completed a wide range of residential, commercial, and institutional projects around the country, with a particularly strong focus on work for the non-profit sector. The firm’s non-profit commissions have included multi-family and scattered site housing, elderly housing, SROs, churches, libraries, and schools. In Chicago alone, Weese Langley Weese has worked on the construction or adaptive re-use of 12 SROs and 11 low and moderate income family housing projects, with emphasis on the historically working-class and increasingly gentrifying neighborhoods of Uptown, Pilsen, and the near northwest side. Other notable projects include the Chicago City Day School, Chicago, IL; Coe College Art Museum and Library, Cedar Rapids, IA; Evelyn Chapel, Illinois Wesleyan Chapel, Bloomington, IL; and Westminster Presbyterian Church, Peoria, IL.
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