Nationality American Occupation Architect | Name Louise Murdock Died 1915 | |
Born 1857 Caneada, New York Alma mater Studied with Frank Alvah Parsons, founder of the Parsons School of Fine and Applied Art Interior Architecture (1906) Buildings Wichita Public Library, Caldwell-Murdock Building, Murdock Theater Projects 20th Century Club of Wichita | ||
Louise Caldwell Murdock (1857–1915) was an American interior designer / architect. Louise's father, J.E. Caldwell brought his family to Wichita from New York in 1871 and opened a Queensware (a hard, cream-colored earthenware, perfected c1765 by Wedgwood) store on North Main Street. She married Roland Pierpont Murdock in 1877 and founded the Twentieth Century Club with him in 1899 in Wichita. She served as its president until 1906. After her husband's death in 1906, she studied interior design with Frank Alvah Parsons in New York City, then returned to Wichita Kansas and designed and built the Caldwell Murdock building on East Douglas, which at seven floors became Wichita's tallest building.
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