Don Erickson, Architect

Click here to see auction details and carefully read title report, description and documents found through links at the bottom of the auction page. Photograph shown details a section of the gue...

http://donericksonarchitect.blogspot.com/2018/08/bidding-on-barrington-home-begins-anew.html

Grodman's mid-century modern warehouse items were auctioned off on 8/23/18 and included the Don Erickson hand-crafted Oak and Onyx Wood Doors and Cabinet Doors removed from Erickson's Barrington ...

http://donericksonarchitect.blogspot.com/2018/08/grodman-mid-century-modern-warehouse.html

Visual Tour of Don Erickson Home - 2009

http://donericksonarchitect.blogspot.com/2018/08/before-rennovations.html

After Dr. Joseph E. Grodman acquired Erickson's Barrington home and 10 acres of land in March 2011 and after substantial renovations, Dr. Grodman lost the home and property to foreclosure. A fore...

http://donericksonarchitect.blogspot.com/2018/08/round-3-don-erickson-home-on-auction.html

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/63988326_oak-and-onyx-craftsmen-room-divider (Hand built and designed by my father.) https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/63988329_monumental-carved-marble-...

http://donericksonarchitect.blogspot.com/2018/08/items-from-don-erickson-barrington-home.html

My parents, Don and Shirley Erickson, purchased 10 acres of Barrington property when I was seven years old. While Dad built his business and we lived in a rented home in Mt. Prospect, Illinois, ...

http://donericksonarchitect.blogspot.com/2018/08/house-and-home-in-barrington-beginning.html

https://www.auction.com/details/26280-w-il-rt-22-barrington-il-60010-2551807-o_1201l

http://donericksonarchitect.blogspot.com/2018/08/erickson-home-price-drop-to-475000.html

Don was born of Swedish immigrants who settled in Chicago. Eric Gunnar Erickson immigrated from Arvika, Sweden and was from a family of craftsman while Ebba Linnea Larson was raised in Olmsta...

http://donericksonarchitect.blogspot.com/2018/08/looking-back-photos-of-architect-and.html

See link:https://www.auction.com/details/26280-w-il-rt-22-barrington-il-60010-2551807-o_1201l New auction begins Sunday, August 19, 2018.  Ironic since this is just 10 days before my father's...

http://donericksonarchitect.blogspot.com/2018/08/round-two-don-erickson-home-on-auction.html

https://chicago.curbed.com/2018/6/27/17508152/for-sale-midcentury-don-erickson-frank-lloyd-wright

http://donericksonarchitect.blogspot.com/2018/08/for-sale-park-ridge-home-designed-by.html

The auction of my father's personal home begins on 8/12/2018. See link below: https://www.auction.com/apps/home-disclosures/2551807/pdf?address=26280%2520W%2520IL%2520RT%252022&city=BARRINGTO...

http://donericksonarchitect.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-fate-of-don-ericksons-barrington.html

It is with deep regret that I post a link to this article about my father's home.  Is there, perhaps, a knight in shining armour? http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20180731/CRED0701/18073...

http://donericksonarchitect.blogspot.com/2018/08/don-erickson-personal-home-seized-by.html

Don Erickson's Family Home - Renewed and Placed on the Market The Sage of Don Erickson's Masterpiece

http://donericksonarchitect.blogspot.com/2015/11/httpmodernilcomthe-saga-of-don.html

Paolo Soleri Dies at Age 93 My father, Don Erickson, and I attended a show of Soleri's work (renderings and models) in Chicago when I was a teenager.  And, we visited Soleri at Acrosanti in A...

http://donericksonarchitect.blogspot.com/2013/04/paolo-soleri-dies-at-age-93-my-father.html

Indian Lakes Resort  discussed under "Frank Lloyd Wright Sites."

http://donericksonarchitect.blogspot.com/2012/02/indian-lakes-resort.html

Heller House for Sale

http://donericksonarchitect.blogspot.com/2012/01/flw-house-for-sale-in-hyde-park.html

http://www.jsonline.com/news/obituaries/stalins-daughter-dies-had-lived-in-richland-center-j837ubs-134628588.html

http://donericksonarchitect.blogspot.com/2011/11/svetlana-peters-dies.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/26/frank-lloyd-wright-home-f_n_1111121.html

http://donericksonarchitect.blogspot.com/2011/11/frank-lloyd-wright-home-facing-sale-at.html

Shirley D. Erickson was born in her family home in Neshkoro, Wisconsin on November 17, 1927, the third child to Arnold C. and Bernice M.Dahlke. Baptized Shirley Mae Dahlke at the Zion Lutheran Ch...

http://donericksonarchitect.blogspot.com/2011/05/shirley-d-erickson-memorial-service.html

Shirley in Barrington A memorial service will be held for Shirley D. Erickson, along with a photographic retrospective of her paintings, on June 18, 2011 at 3:00 p.m. at the Zion Lutheran Ch...

http://donericksonarchitect.blogspot.com/2011/05/in-memorium.html

Married to Don on Dec. 13, 1952, Shirley Erickson died today, at age 83, of cardiac arrest, in her sleep.  Shirley was Don's first wife, and mother to three children, including me.

http://donericksonarchitect.blogspot.com/2011/05/shirley-d-erickson.html

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_localchi/20110509/ts_yblog_localchi/frank-lloyd-wrights-perry-house-hits-the-market-in-glencoe?bouchon=602,il

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I have been amazed by the number of visitors to my blog; the written word is powerful.  I became interested in writing when I was young.  I wrote poetry while sitting on my bed, and looked out ...

http://donericksonarchitect.blogspot.com/2011/03/don-erickson-estate-home-sold.html

See article from NY Times - link below: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/25/arts/design/25tafel.html?_r=1&emc=tnt&tntemail1=y

http://donericksonarchitect.blogspot.com/2011/01/edgar-tafel-wright-trained-architect.html

The son of Jack Mayes, Shawn, shares memories and photos about his life in a Don Erickson home, a home painstakingly built by the Mayes in the 1950's. http://www.prairiemod.com/prairiemod/2011/0...

http://donericksonarchitect.blogspot.com/2011/01/another-look-back-at-mayes-house.html