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Architects buried in Illinois
Wikidata records 74 architects as buried in 16 of the cemeteries we list in Illinois. Graceland Cemetery in Chicago holds the most, with 38. Illinois has the 4th highest count of any state, out of 861 nationally.
People with architect among their recorded occupations.
74
architects
16
cemeteries
2%
of notable burials in Illinois
1940s
the decade with the most deaths (11)
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In order of death
Architects buried in Illinois
- John C. Cochrane1833-1887ArchitectOakwoods Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Edward Baumann1838-1889Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- John Wellborn Root1850-1891American architectGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- John M. Van Osdel1811-1891American architectRosehill Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Edward J. Burling1819-1892American architectGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Theodore Karls1833-1895American architectGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- William W. Boyington1818-1898American politician and architectRosehill Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Dankmar Adler1844-1900ArchitectRosemont Park Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Merton Yale Cady1840-190019th century architect from Moline, IllinoisRiverside Cemetery, Moline, IL
- George A. Fuller1851-1900American architectOakwoods Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- William Le Baron Jenney1832-1907American architectGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Daniel Burnham1846-1912American architect and urban designerGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Frank D. Arms1872-1913American football coachGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- John B. Sutcliffe1853-1913English and American architectGlen Oak Cemetery, Hillside, IL
- James J. Egan1839-1914Irish-American architectCalvary Catholic Cemetery, Evanston, IL
- Solon Spencer Beman1853-1914American architectOakwoods Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Normand Smith Patton1852-1915American architectForest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, IL
- William Ernest Walker1867-1918American architect, active in IllinoisGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Otto H. Matz1830-1919American architect and mapmakerGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Frederick Baumann1826-1921German architectGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- William Holabird1854-1923American architectGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Louis Sullivan1856-1924American architectGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Joachim Gotsche Giæver1856-1925Norwegian engineerGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Cornelius Ward Rapp1860-1926American architectOakland Cemetery, Carbondale, IL
- Howard Van Doren Shaw1869-1926American architectGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Frank V. Newell1867-1926American architectGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- George W. Maher1864-1926American architectRosehill Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Charles H. Wacker1856-1929American urban plannerGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Adam Ortseifen1854-1929German-American brewery manager and politicianSaint Boniface Catholic Cemetery, Lincolnwood, IL
- Charles Sumner Frost1856-1931American architectRosehill Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Charles R. Ayars1861-1934American architectGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Andrew E. Norman1860-1934Swedish-American architect, ChicagoRosehill Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Frederick P. Dinkelberg1858-1935American architectWunder's Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Ernest R. Graham1868-1936American architectGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Robert Carl Berlin1851-1937American artistGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Sidney Lovell1867-1938American architectRosehill Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Henry Schlacks1867-1938American architectSaint Boniface Catholic Cemetery, Lincolnwood, IL
- William Bryce Mundie1863-1939Canadian-American architectRosehill Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Thomas Tallmadge1876-1940American architectGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- J. E. O. Pridmore1864-1940British-American architectRosehill Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- George Leslie Rapp1878-1941American architect, noted for designing theatersOakland Cemetery, Carbondale, IL
- Arthur F. Hussander1865-1943American architect, ChicagoGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Benjamin H. Marshall1874-1944American architectRosehill Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Herbert Hewitt1871-1944American architectSpringdale Cemetery, Peoria, IL
- László Moholy-Nagy1895-1946Hungarian artistGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Zachary Taylor Davis1869-1946American architectMount Olivet Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Moritz F. Strauch1876-1946Austrian-American architect, ChicagoAcacia Park Cemetery and Mausoleum, Norridge, IL
- William Eugene Drummond1876-1946American Prairie School architectForest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, IL
- David Adler1882-1949American architectGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Robert Seyfarth1878-1950American architectOakwood Cemetery, Geneseo, IL
- Vernon Spencer Watson1878-1950American architectRosehill Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Leopold Ehrmann1886-1951Czech architectGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- George Grant Elmslie1869-1952American architectGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Robert Seeley DeGolyer1876-1952American architect, 1876-1952Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Elmer C. Jensen1870-1955American architectGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- John J. Burns1886-1956American architect, ChicagoAll Saints Catholic Cemetery and Mausoleum, Des Plaines, IL
- Frank Emerson1876-1959American architectSpringdale Cemetery, Peoria, IL
- Marion Mahony Griffin1871-1961American architect and artistGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Daniel Burnham Jr.1886-1961American architectGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- John Wellborn Root Jr.1887-1963American architectGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- William Gray Purcell1880-1965American architectForest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, IL
- Andrew Rebori1886-1966American architectGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Barry Byrne1883-1967American architectCalvary Catholic Cemetery, Evanston, IL
- Hubert Burnham1882-1968American architectGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe1886-1969German architectGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Knight Cheney Cowles1892-1970American architectGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Miles Lanier Colean1898-1980Springdale Cemetery, Peoria, IL
- Bruce Goff1904-1982American architectGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Fazlur Khan1929-1982Bangladeshi architectGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Maurice Carroll1897-1990American architect, active in Saint Louis and Kansas CityAll Saints Catholic Cemetery and Mausoleum, Des Plaines, IL
- Tristan Meinecke1916-2004Abstract artistRosehill Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Walter Netsch1920-2008American architectGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Bruce Graham1925-2010Peruvian-American architectGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
- Stanley Tigerman1930-2019American architectGraceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
Everyone on this list, by year of death. People without a recorded death year come last.
Over time
Deaths by decade
- 1880s2
- 1890s5
- 1900s4
- 1910s8
- 1920s10
- 1930s9
- 1940s11
- 1950s8
- 1960s8
- 1970s1
- 1980s3
- 1990s1
- 2000s2
- 2010s2
By recorded year of death, for the 74 people with one.
Cemeteries
Where they are buried
- Graceland Cemetery · Chicago, IL38
- Rosehill Cemetery · Chicago, IL12
- Forest Home Cemetery · Forest Park, IL3
- Springdale Cemetery · Peoria, IL3
- Oakwoods Cemetery · Chicago, IL3
- Calvary Catholic Cemetery · Evanston, IL2
- All Saints Catholic Cemetery and Mausoleum · Des Plaines, IL2
- Saint Boniface Catholic Cemetery · Lincolnwood, IL2
- Oakland Cemetery · Carbondale, IL2
- Mount Olivet Cemetery · Chicago, IL1
- Wunder's Cemetery · Chicago, IL1
- Rosemont Park Cemetery · Chicago, IL1
- Acacia Park Cemetery and Mausoleum · Norridge, IL1
- Glen Oak Cemetery · Hillside, IL1
- Riverside Cemetery · Moline, IL1
- Oakwood Cemetery · Geneseo, IL1
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Other notable burials in Illinois
Business leaders265United States representatives260Writers and poets238Baseball players201Musicians and singers191Journalists129Painters, sculptors and photographers94Physicians93American Civil War veterans88Actors80American football players78World War II veterans71World War I veterans70Scientists66Medal of Honor recipients57Inventors and engineers55Basketball players51Governors31United States senators25
Method
How this list is made
A person is on this list when their Wikidata entry gives a cemetery we list as their place of burial and also carries the statement this list is built on. We do not add anyone by judgment, so the list reflects how complete Wikidata is: some people are missing, and burial places can be disputed.
Names, years and descriptions are shown as Wikidata records them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists.