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The partnership of Childs & Smith was established in 1912 by architects Frank A. Childs and William Jones Smith, both employees of Holabird & Roche who had received a Beaux-Arts education."Architectural Firm of Childs & Smith" in [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Construction_News/YN9aAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 Construction News] 34, no. 10 (September 7, 1912): 12. Their first office was located in the Peoples Gas Building, but in 1919 they moved to Steinway Hall, a center of the architectural profession in Chicago."Business Notices" in [https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/OS9YAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 American Contractor] 40, no. 3 (January 18, 1919): 39. The partnership was expanded in 1919 and 1947 to include architects O. H. Breidert"In This Issue" in Pencil Points (January, 1942): 10. and Joseph F. Ringhofer and in 1953 to include mechanical engineer Charles R. Kuglin.American School Board Journal 126 (March, 1953): 10. The firm's expansion necessitated several moves to larger offices, and in 1947 they settled into the Civic Opera Building."New Addresses" in Architectural Record 101, no. 6 (June, 1947): 160. Childs, Smith and Breidert were the chief designers of the firm's works. Childs was generally responsible for schools, Smith for bank, office and college buildings and Breidert for industrial as well as office buildings. This was, however, not the rule, and the partner who brought a project into the firm would see it to completion.

Smith died in 1958. The firm was incorporated in 1960 with Breidert as president and Childs as chair of the board of directors. During the next few years Childs withdrew from practice and the firm added new principals: Ray Stuermer in 1962,"Notices" in Progressive Architecture 43, no. 1 (January, 1962): 216. William J. Scheidemantel in 1964 and David J. Tamminga in 1965."Tamminga, David Jacob" in Who's Who in the Midwest, 16th ed. (Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1978): 693. Childs died in the latter year and Stuermer and Scheidemantel left in 1966 and 1969,Stuermer, Ray" in American Architects Directory (New York: R. R. Bowker Company, 1970): 685. respectively, leaving Breidert, Kuglin, Ringhofer and Tamminga as principals.

In 1970 the firm was acquired by Welton Becket & Associates, a large firm based in Los Angeles, and was reorganized as its Chicago office.Interiors 129, no. 8 (March, 1970): 30. Breidert retired and Kuglin and Tamminga became senior vice presidents of the Becket firm, with Kuglin being appointed director of the Chicago office and Tamminga as director of production. In 1974 the firm moved from its long-time home in the Civic Opera Building to the 200 West Monroe Building, an office building which the office had completed in 1973.Inland Architect 18, no. 9 (September, 1974): 25. Shortly thereafter Kuglin retired as director and was replaced by George S. Hammond, a Becket employee since 1958.Realty and Building 172, no. 23 (December 7, 1974): 13."Hammond, George Starr" in American Architects Directory (New York: R. R. Bowker Company, 1970): 370. In 1976 Tamminga, the last remaining principal of Childs & Smith, left to join Burnham & Hammond.

Frank Aiken Childs {{post-nominals|list=FAIA}} (January 12, 1875 – January 25, 1965) was born in Evanston, Illinois. He was educated at the Armour Institute, graduating in 1895. He spent the next ten years working for Chicago architects, including three years each with George W. Maher and James Gamble Rogers. In 1905 he went to Paris, where he studied for the next two years in the Beaux-Arts atelier of Gustave Umbdenstock, though he was not admitted to the school itself. He returned to the United States in 1907 and went to San Francisco, where he worked for Llewellyn B. Dutton until 1909, when he returned to Chicago to work for Holabird & Roche."Childs, Frank A(iken)" in American Architects Directory (New York: R. R. Bowker Company, 1956): 92.

Childs was a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and was elected a Fellow in 1955 for design."Plan Services For Architect Frank A. Childs," Chicago Tribune, January 27, 1965, 6.

Childs did not marry. He died in a nursing home in Niles at the age of 90.

William Jones Smith {{post-nominals|list=FAIA SADG}} (May 26, 1881 – January 22, 1958) was born in Philadelphia. He was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1903 with a BS in architecture. He then traveled to Paris, where he joined the Beaux-Arts atelier of Gaston Redon. He was admitted to the second class of the École des Beaux-Arts the same year. He was promoted to the first class in 1905 and awarded a diplôme in 1907.E. Delaire, Les Architectes: Élèves de l'École des Beaux-Arts (Paris: Librairie de la Construction Moderne, 1907) He then returned to the United States and joined the office of Cass Gilbert in New York City. He worked for Gilbert for two years and worked on the plans for the St. Louis Public Library. In 1909 he moved to Chicago where he joined Childs at Holabird & Roche, for which firm he worked as chief designer."Smith, William Jones" in American Architects Directory (New York: R. R. Bowker Company, 1956): 521.

From 1924 to 1929 Smith was associate professor at the Armour Institute, teaching senior architectural design courses. He served in both world wars. In World War I he served in the 319th engineers of the 8th Infantry Division, which did not see combat. In World War II he served as an engineer for the war department and was a coordinator in charge of the construction of a segment of the Pentagon.Earl H. Reed, "William Jones Smith, F.A.I.A." in Inland Architect (April, 1958): 10-11.

Like Childs, Smith was a member of the AIA and was elected a Fellow in 1935, also for design. He was also a member of the Société des architectes diplômés par le gouvernement (SADG), then an organization representing graduates in architecture from the École des Beaux-Arts. That organization is now the Société française des architectes, the French equivalent of the AIA.

Smith was married in 1914 to Mary Van Horne, then librarian of the Ryerson Library of the Art Institute of Chicago. They had three children, all sons. He died in Winnetka at the age of 76.

• 1917 – Russell Sage Hall, Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin
• 1919 – Lawrence Memorial Chapel, Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin
• 1920 – Willard D. Purdy Junior High and Vocational School,{{efn|name=NRHP|NRHP-listed.}} 110 W 3rd St, Marshfield, Wisconsin
• 1922 – Hardware Mutual Insurance Companies Building,{{efn|name=NRHP}} 1421 Strongs Ave, Stevens Point, Wisconsin
• 1923 – First National Bank Building,{{efn|name=NRHP}} 201 W 2nd St, Davenport, Iowa
• 1923 – St. Stephen's Catholic Church, 1401 Clark St, Stevens Point, Wisconsin
• 1925 – First United Methodist Church, 325 E Franklin St, Appleton, Wisconsin
• 1926 – C. B. Clark Jr. house, 617 E Wisconsin Ave, Neenah, Wisconsin
• 1926 – Northern States Life Insurance Company office building,{{efn|name=NRHP}} 5935 Hohman Ave, Hammond, Indiana
• 1927 – Apartment building, 1448 N Lake Shore Dr, ChicagoFrank A. Randall, [https://archive.org/details/historyofdevelop0000rand_02ed/page/n5/mode/2up History of the Development of Building Construction in Chicago] (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999){{rp|322}}
• 1927 – Jackson High School, 544 Wildwood Ave, Jackson, Michigan
• 1928 – First Presbyterian Church, 406 Grant St, Wausau, Wisconsin
• 1929 – American Bankers Insurance Company Building,{{efn|name=Dem|Demolished.}} 43 E Ohio St, Chicago{{rp|335-337}}
• 1930 – Gary United Methodist Church, 224 N Main St, Wheaton, IllinoisDu Page County: A Discriptive and Historical Guide, ed. Marion Knoblauch (Wheaton: Du Page Title Company, 1951): 183.
• 1931 – Bartlett Hall, Alfred University, Alfred, New YorkEngineering News-Record 105, no. 6 (July 7, 1930): 71.
• 1931 – Lincoln High School, 311 Lincoln St, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin
• 1932 – Binns-Merrill Hall, Alfred University, Alfred, New YorkEngineering News-Record 106, no. 10 (March 5, 1931): 69.
• 1933 – Seidlin Hall, Alfred University, Alfred, New York"New Babcock Hall Plans To Include Modern Features," Fiat Lux, April 16, 1929, 1.
• 1936 – Campana Factory,{{efn|name=Campana|Designed by Childs & Smith and Frank D. Chase, associated architects. NRHP-listed.}} 901 N Batavia Ave, Batavia, Illinois
• 1937 – First Presbyterian Church, 600 9th St, Wilmette, Illinois
• 1938 – Valentine Chicago Boys Club, 3400 S Emerald Ave, Chicago
• 1941 – Employers Mutual Liability Company office building, 407 Grant St, Wausau, Wisconsin
• 1952 – Mather Home,{{efn|name=Dem}} 1615 Hinman Ave, Evanston, Illinois
• 1952 – Wauconda High School, 555 N Main St, Wauconda, Illinois
• 1953 – Libertyville High School, 708 W Park Ave, Libertyville, Illinois
• 1954 – Utica Mutual Insurance Company office building, 180 Genesee St, New Hartford, New York
• 1955 – Marathon County Courthouse, 500 Forest St, Wausau, Wisconsin
• 1956 – Eleanor Residence,{{efn|name=Dem}} 1550 N Dearborn Pkwy, Chicago
• 1956 – Michigan Millers Mutual Insurance Company office building, 2425 E Grand River Ave, Lansing, Michigan
• 1957 – Broad Meadows Middle School, 50 Calvin Rd, Quincy, Massachusetts
• 1959 – Maine West High School, 1755 S Wolf Rd, Des Plaines, Illinois
• 1961 – St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company office building, 385 Washington St, St. Paul, Minnesota
• 1967 – George S. Parker High School, 3125 Mineral Point Ave, Janesville, Wisconsin
• 1968 – Building 223, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinoishttps://www.ne.anl.gov/About/legacy/materials/
• 1971 – Kemper Insurance Companies office building, 1 Corporate Dr, Lake Zurich, Illinois
• 1973 – 200 West Monroe Building, 200 W Monroe St, Chicago{{rp|373}}
• State Bank and Trust, Evanston
• Security Bank, Chicago
• American National Bank, Wausau, WI
• First Methodist Church, Kenosha, WI
• First Evangelical Lutheran Church, Janesville, WI

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