He was born in Newark, New Jersey, the son of carpenter and cabinet maker Eugene Drummond and his wife Ida Marietta Lozier.
Drummond would serve as the chief draftsman for several well-known Wright's commissions, including the home of Edwin and Mamah Borthwick Cheney in Oak Park, the Frederick Robie House in Chicago, the Susan Lawrence Dana House in Springfield, Illinois, and the Larkin Company Administration Building in Buffalo.
I know that each one of them was then making valuable contributions to the pioneering of the modern American architecture for which my father gets the full glory, headaches and recognition today!
[3]In 1907 Drummond married Clara Alice McCulloch Christian, a woman several years his senior whose first husband died of tuberculosis.
His entry was daringly original, with a huge tri-parti rectangular crown, perforated and carved in such a way that it defied conventional architectural descriptive terms.
With oversize urn forms at the base of the crown, scooped recesses and geometric ornament at its summit, the building offered a dynamic melding of Prairie and Art Moderne that, had it been chosen, would have become an immediate and vibrant landmark on the Chicago skyline, without harking back to any historic style (as did the winning entry by architects John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood).
[4] The prevailing view of his later career is that, as the public taste changed during the 1920s, Drummond's work bore fewer of the hallmarks of the Prairie School.
Shortly before his death on September 13, 1948, Drummond published a book detailing a plan to redesign the United States Capitol.