Law, Law & Potter was an architecture firm in Madison, Wisconsin; Potter Lawson, Inc. is its modern-day successor. Some of its buildings are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places for their architecture. The firm was Madison's largest and "arguably most important" architectural firm in the 1920s and 1930s. [1]
The founding partners were brothers James R. Law III (1885–1952) and Edward J. Law (1891-1983), who were both born in Madison and graduates of the University of Pennsylvania's School of Architecture. Ellis J. Potter (1890 – 1990) joined them in 1926. Paul E. Nystrom (1899–?) joined as a draftsman and was an architect in the firm by 1931, and the firm eventually became Law, Law, Potter, & Nystrom. [1] [2]
James R. Law (1855–1952) was born in Madison. He worked in the architectural office of Louis Claude and Edward Starck in 1901, and later studied at the School of Architecture of the University of Pennsylvania, and graduated in 1909. Then back in Madison, he worked for architect Arthur Peabody before founding his own firm in 1914. [2]
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