Samuel Shackford Otis (1891–1974) was an architect from Winnetka, Illinois, who designed numerous hotels, housing complexes, and other buildings during a nearly 40-year career.
[1] While working with H. L. Stevens & Company, Otis supervised hotel designs in six U.S. states (Alabama, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, Mississippi, and Ohio).
Serving as a supervising architect for the Works Progress Administration, he oversaw the design of housing complexes in Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas.
He designed houses, schools, churches, and other buildings in Illinois and other states, including five Carnegie libraries.
Otis served on Winnetka's first Plan Commission, which published the 1921 report[8] that guided the village's early development.
Training until October, he received a commission of ensign and a detachment to the submarine chasers group.
Otis also served on the Chicago Metropolitan Housing Council [2] and helped found the Indian Hill Club in Winnetka.
He also remodeled the original Standard Oil Building (now the Michigan Avenue Lofts) in Chicago.