He relocated to Chicago, Illinois shortly after the great fire in 1871, where he became heavily involved in reconstruction. He also developed strong personal connections with leaders in the Chicago Roman Catholic Church, and received the commission for St. Vincent de Paul Church in Lincoln Park.[4] He and formed several partnerships with fellow architects.
John M. Armstrong was born around 1840 on a farm at Kinzie and Wells Streets. He was a councilman at the age of twenty and is credited with the relocation of the city's first cemetery to make way for Lincoln Park.[5] Around 1874, Egan went into partnership with Armstrong, forming the firm of Armstrong & Egan which designed the City Hall/County Building (1874).[6] Disagreements arose between the City Council and the County Board, with each pursuing their respective portion of the project separately.
Henry W. Hill was born in Elmshorn, Germany and attended the Inst. of Technology ad Polytechnicum in Hamburg. He arrived in Chicago in March 1872 and was employed in the offices of a number of leading architects.[7] Hill worked for Armstrong & Egan on the courthouse project. From 1875 to 1881 Egan partnered with Hill,[2] in the firm Egan & Hill. In 1881, Hill went into partnership with Augustus Bauer. Hill retired to Holstein, Germany in 1914.
Egan & Kirkland
Interior of St. Raphael's Cathedral, Dubuque
In 1882, he formed a partnership with Alex Kirkland. Kirkland had previously served as Supervising Architect on Armstrong & Egan's City Hall/County Building project.[8]
Hotel St. Benedict Flats, 801 North Wabash Street (1882–1883), a four-story building of luxury apartments on Chicago Avenue at Wabash.[9]
Egan formed the firm "Egan & Prindeville" with Charles H. Prindeville. It gained prominence building Roman Catholic churches and other structures, including the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, St. Paul Cathedral (1906). Egan was made a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1913.
He died in Chicago on December 2, 1914, and was buried at Calvary Cemetery in Evanston.
The firm continued under Charles Prindeville after Egan's death.[17]
St. Francis de Sales Church (1899, demolished), Keokuk, Iowa[12]
123Greer, Edward (1956). Cork Hill Cathedral: The Chronicle of St. Margaret's and Sacred Heart Parish Davenport, Iowa 1856-1956. Davenport: Gordon. p.78.
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