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Beman was just twenty-seven years old , although a seasoned <br /> architect, when he took on this immense project . The town that <br /> resulted was two-and-a-half by one-half miles in size . He <br /> designed the broad range of buildings necessary for the <br /> development of a manufacturing town including factories , <br /> residences and community structures . By April , 1882 over five <br /> million dollars and three million bricks had been expended on the <br /> town . <br /> Beman ' s design for Pullman was intended to be primarily <br /> functional . He eclectically chose from the broad range of styles <br /> and influences typical to his time and tried no innovative plans . <br /> The end result was considered "competent and credible" by his <br /> contemporaries . [ 12] He continued this borrowing of historic <br /> styles with his use of Renaissance ideas in the design of the <br /> Studebaker Building . It too is an attractive and functional <br /> building that is stylistically conservative, relative to its <br /> time, serving to fulfill its intended function and exude an air <br /> of quiet authority . <br /> Beman went on to design many other buildings for Pullman as well <br /> as the Proctor and Gamble factories in Cincinnati , the <br /> Connecticut State Capitol and many other structures throughout <br /> the country . Beman also designed the South Bend Y.M.C.A . ( 1908) <br /> that was donated to the city by the Studebaker firm. It , <br /> unfortunately, no longer exists . The Administration building <br /> remains as the single local example of this important architect ' s <br /> body of work . <br /> F . Holycross <br /> J. Pastor <br /> 8 <br />