T. Dudley Allen

He continued these studies in northern Ohio, eventually starting an architectural practice in Medina.

[4] He spent a year in Florida before coming back west to Racine, Wisconsin, to live with his daughter, Wrennie, and her husband.

In 1891 Allen's daughter, Wrennie, married David R. Davis, an employee of her father's.

In the twentieth century, several writers have commented on his later works in the Richardsonian Romanesque style.

This is echoed by Kathryn Bishop Eckert in her 2000 study of sandstone architecture around Lake Superior, noting in particular an impression of a lack of planning.

[12] In their 1993 survey of the architecture of Iowa, David Gebhard and Gerald Mansheim are more diplomatic, instead calling Allen's approach "rather personal."