Charles Murphy (architect)
# Charles Murphy (architect)

Charles Francis Murphy (February 9, 1890 – May 22, 1985) was an American architect based in Chicago, Illinois.

## Biography

Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, Murphy was educated at the De La Salle Institute in Chicago. His first job was as a secretary, joining the offices of D.H. Burnham & Company in 1911 and he was steadily promoted to become personal secretary to the architect Ernest Graham.

After Graham died in 1936, Murphy moved on to co-found the architectural practice Shaw, Naess & Murphy with Alfred P. Shaw and Sigurd E. Naess (1886 - 1970). Murphy had no formal training as an architect at the time. He was next part of Naess & Murphy. The practice was later renamed C. F. Murphy Associates and later Murphy/Jahn Inc. in 1983 when Helmut Jahn took over as president.

Murphy was awarded an honorary degree from St. Xavier University in 1961, and became a fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1964.

## Selected buildings

* Miami Herald building (1960)
* Richard J. Daley Center (1965)
* Blue Cross-Blue Shield Building (1968)
* McCormick Place, Chicago (1970) convention center rebuilt following a fire in 1967
* O'Hare Airport’s original Terminal 1, and current Terminals 2 and 3
* J. Edgar Hoover Building
