Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Lawrence Buck (1865 1929) was a successful and influential Chicago area residential and commercial architect, artist and landscape painter, associated with the Prairie School and the American Arts and Crafts Movement. Lawrence H. Buck was born in 1865 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His father was William Henry Buck (1840 in Norway 1888 in New Orleans). The elder Buck was a landscape artist, specializing in sub-tropical landscape, genre paintings and sporting scenes which are highly prized by collectors. By the age of twenty, Lawrence Buck was working as a draughtsman and by the age of twenty-seven he had relocated to Birmingham, Alabama, where he practiced architecture in partnership with John Sutcliffe. In 1889, Sutcliffe relocated to Chicago, Buck also moved there and continued their professional association.