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83 From the earliest days of his childhood, John Van Bergen was destined to become a successful and accomplished architect. Yet in this town of the most famous American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, Van Bergen was nearly overlooked.
Born in Oak Park in 1885, John Van Bergen was the second of four children. He grew up surrounded by building construction sites--in the 1890's, residential, school and church construction was booming all over the Oak Park area.
Van Bergen's familiarity with building construction and his love of nature were the foundations on which he based his career.
