After his return to the United States he worked for York & Sawyer, Francis Keally and Mayers Murray & Phillip before becoming an associate in the office of Edward Durell Stone in 1936.
[2] Nonetheless, the success of these early projects caused both architects to have influential careers in retail design.
After only eight months he fired her after she discouraged a male employee's romantic advances, though he found a job for her in the New York office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
[4] Major works of the partnership include Shopper's World in Framingham, Massachusetts, opened in 1951 as one of the first suburban shopping malls in the United States.
[7] In addition to de Blois, notable architects who worked in the Ketchum office include Jules Gregory, Arthur Cotton Moore, John C. Portman Jr.[8] and William Rupp.