J. E. O. Pridmore

John Edmund Oldaker Pridmore (July 18, 1864 – February 1, 1940) was a British-American architect, best known for his theater designs.

He lived in Edgewater, Chicago and carried out many residential designs in the area.

[1] Pridmore was the architect for three homes he lived in at 6249 N. Magnolia, four years later he designed a larger house at 5959 North Winthrop (since demolished) where he spent the majority of his professional and family life, and then an apartment in the building at 6003 N. Winthrop, to the north of his house.

Pridmore designed a number of apartment buildings in the Woodlawn, Austin, Edgewater, and Logan Square neighborhoods.

In 1901, he designed the Bush Temple of Music at the intersection of Clark Street and Chicago Avenue.