+++ Charles Bowler Atwood was born in Millbury Massachusetts on May 18, 1849.  He was educated at Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard University and worked for the Boston firm of Ware and Van Brunt.  He practiced under his own name in New York and later collaborated with Herter Brothers on the Fifth Avenue Vanderbilt residence.  In 1891, following the death of John Wellborn Root, and at the recommendation of John Van Brunt, Charles Atwood joined Daniel Burnham in Chicago where he was Architect in Chief for the World's Columbian Exposition. Atwood's skill as both classicist and innovator secured his reputation with D. H. Burnham & Co in Chicago, where hewas a partner with the firm. He died under mysterious circumstances on