Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 298, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1916 — A. Wasson Coen to Establish Rensselaer Office. [ARTICLE]

A. Wasson Coen to Establish Rensselaer Office.

A. Wasson Coen, son of Albert Coen, of Chicago, and grandson.of Mrs. J. W. Wasson, of this city, finds his services so much in demand here that he has decided to establish an office in Rensselaer. 'Few architects have had the thorough training of Mr. Coen. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, which is said to offer the very best course in his line of any college in the United States. After completing his course there he traveled and studied a year abroad. This excellent training, ' together with Mr. Coen’s natural gift along this line, put him at once in touch "with the very best architects in the city of Chicago. He has, spent seven years with one of the very best firms in that city. During this time he has had in charge work connected with the Art Institute, the LaSalle Hotel,, the City Hall Building, the University Club Building and a large number of Chicago University buildings. He has been the architect for a great many of the finest Lake Forest residences. Upon all this work he has left the stamp of a real artist. In Rensselaer Mr. Coen has done the architectural work for the C. W. Eger residence, the county hospital, and has under way plans for the Monnett Home, the First National Bank and the Trust and Savings Bank. Besides these he is the architect for the splendid consolidated school buildifig south of Rensselaer in Marion township. We are all interested in a more beautiful Rensselaer and we are sure that Mr. Coen is to have a very large and a very helpful part in bringing this to pass.