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LARRY BIDDLE
President
President of the Historic Roser Park Neighborhood Association.
Personal Profile: I have been involved in historic architectural preservation and communities all my adult life. It’s a pastime I didn’t know I wanted to pursue until I lived in Chicago in the ’70s. I literally wore out shoes discovering the birthplace of the modern skyscraper and other such architectural engineering feats, many of them beautiful homes. As a result, I was elected to the founding board of directors of the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio Foundation in Oak Park, IL.
My interest goes beyond the buildings. I value them as representatives of communities in which people worked together to create refuge, as well as lasting emblems of creative talent. Soon after my partner, David Warner, and I began our relationship, we discovered our mutual interest in domestic architecture. No wonder we settled on buying a 1924 airplane bungalow — slightly reflective of Wright’s “Prairie School” design — and located in Roser Park, a community of people active in preservation and community development. My hope is to contribute to the community as it moves forward toward a collective vision for the future.
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