Architect John Graham, Jr. was born On This Day, April 8, 1908. In the late 1940s, he designed the what has become the modern shopping center. He also designed the Space Needle for the 1962 Seattle World's Fair and the first revolving restaurant in Honolulu, Hawaii.

John Graham, an architect whose designs included the Space Needle for the 1962 World's Fair in Seattle,

Born and raised in Seattle, John Graham Jr., attended the Moran Military Academy and then Queen Anne High School, graduating in 1925. He began his formal architectural education at the University of Washington in 1926, and then transferred to Yale, where he received his Bachelor’s degree in architecture in 1931. Due to the Depression, Graham worked in the retail business before joining his father’s architectural practice as a partner in 1937. Business was booming for the firm, and at the age of 30, Graham Jr. opened a branch office in New York City with engineer William Painter as a partner.

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