Zachary Taylor Davis
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Zachary Taylor Davis (May 26 1872–December 16 1946) was the architect of three major Chicago buildings: Old Comiskey Park (1910), Wrigley Field (1914), and St. James Chapel (1918). [1] Known as the Frank Lloyd Wright of baseball, Davis was one of the first architects to design ballparks with innovative steel-beam and concrete construction. He also supervised a Comiskey Park expansion to accommodate fans of the visiting Babe Ruth.
Zachary Taylor Davis (born in Aurora, Illinois) graduated from the Armour Institiute of Technology (now the Illinois Institute of Technology). Like other South Side Chicagoans, he quietly worked at his home at 45th and Drexal in Kenwood, Chicago. He was so quiet that one historian referred to him as "the most significant lost architect in Chicago." Taylor died in Chicago in 1946.
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