Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. John Lawrence Mauran, FAIA (1866, Providence, Rhode Island 1933) was an American architect responsible for many downtown landmarks in St. Louis, Missouri, and also active in Texas. Mauran studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1885 through 1889 under the French-American educator Eugene Letang, and entered the Boston office of Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge as a young draftsman. There he helped design the 1893 Chicago Public Library (now the Chicago Cultural Center) and the 1894 Art Institute of Chicago.