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Staying Busy After (Final) Retirement

Posted by: Deborah Myerson
Thanks to: Deborah Myerson
6 May 2005 - 5:00am

For one architect, being dead didn’t put an end to designing buildings.

While 104 is a ripe old age for anyone still to be working, it turns out architect Emil Larson wasn’t really just trying to supplement his Social Security income when drawings for a new building came out in 2001 with his name on them. In fact, he had passed away in 1993. And the 28 projects he had produced in the intervening years? It appears that a former employee had allegedly appropriated his former boss' professional name, architectural license, and stamp.

Full Story: The case of the busy, deceased architect
Source: The Chicago Tribune, May 3, 2005
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