Lumber tycoon who came to Chicago from Pennsylvania at age 20. He worked first as a bookkeeper and then as a lumber salesman. Goodman eventually started investing in lumber, and in 1878 organized the Sawyer-Goodman Lumber Co., of which he eventually became president.
Goodman is famous for helping to found the Goodman Theatre through a gift of $250,000 made to the Art Institute of Chicago. The donation was made in memory of his son Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, a playwright who died at the age of 35 during the 1918 flu pandemic. His son had written and produced a number of different plays throughout Chicago and had envisioned a theater which embraced the best professional training and performance standards.
He is also notable for employing architect Howard Van Doren Shaw (who also designed the Goodman Theatre) to build both a mausoleum memorializing his playwright son Kenneth, who died in 1918 of influenza while serving as a lieutenant at Great Lakes Naval Training Station. as well as his mansion in the expensive Gold Coast District. His former residence is on Astor Street, which was given landmark status in 1975 by then mayor Richard J. Daley.
Goodman is famous for helping to found the Goodman Theatre through a gift of $250,000 made to the Art Institute of Chicago. The donation was made in memory of his son Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, a playwright who died at the age of 35 during the 1918 flu pandemic. His son had written and produced a number of different plays throughout Chicago and had envisioned a theater which embraced the best professional training and performance standards.
He is also notable for employing architect Howard Van Doren Shaw (who also designed the Goodman Theatre) to build both a mausoleum memorializing his playwright son Kenneth, who died in 1918 of influenza while serving as a lieutenant at Great Lakes Naval Training Station. as well as his mansion in the expensive Gold Coast District. His former residence is on Astor Street, which was given landmark status in 1975 by then mayor Richard J. Daley.
Lumber tycoon who came to Chicago from Pennsylvania at age 20. He worked first as a bookkeeper and then as a lumber salesman. Goodman eventually started investing in lumber, and in 1878 organized the Sawyer-Goodman Lumber Co., of which he eventually became president.
Goodman is famous for helping to found the Goodman Theatre through a gift of $250,000 made to the Art Institute of Chicago. The donation was made in memory of his son Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, a playwright who died at the age of 35 during the 1918 flu pandemic. His son had written and produced a number of different plays throughout Chicago and had envisioned a theater which embraced the best professional training and performance standards.
He is also notable for employing architect Howard Van Doren Shaw (who also designed the Goodman Theatre) to build both a mausoleum memorializing his playwright son Kenneth, who died in 1918 of influenza while serving as a lieutenant at Great Lakes Naval Training Station. as well as his mansion in the expensive Gold Coast District. His former residence is on Astor Street, which was given landmark status in 1975 by then mayor Richard J. Daley.
Goodman is famous for helping to found the Goodman Theatre through a gift of $250,000 made to the Art Institute of Chicago. The donation was made in memory of his son Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, a playwright who died at the age of 35 during the 1918 flu pandemic. His son had written and produced a number of different plays throughout Chicago and had envisioned a theater which embraced the best professional training and performance standards.
He is also notable for employing architect Howard Van Doren Shaw (who also designed the Goodman Theatre) to build both a mausoleum memorializing his playwright son Kenneth, who died in 1918 of influenza while serving as a lieutenant at Great Lakes Naval Training Station. as well as his mansion in the expensive Gold Coast District. His former residence is on Astor Street, which was given landmark status in 1975 by then mayor Richard J. Daley.
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