Allen Bartlit Pond

Pond was gra­dua­ted from the Uni­ver­sity of Mi­chi­gan in 1880 and from his ear­liest days was a stu­dent of so­cial af­fairs. He foun­ded the Mu­ni­ci­pal Vo­ters Le­ague of Chi­cago. He ser­ved on the boards of the Union Le­ague Club, Cliff Dwel­lers, Pu­blic Edu­ca­tio­nal As­so­cia­tion, Na­tio­nal Con­fe­rence on City Plan­ning, So­ciety for the Preven­tion of Blind­ness, Chi­cago Zo­n­ing Board of Ap­peals, and the Na­tio­nal Hou­sing As­so­cia­tion. For many years he was se­cretary of the Hull House As­so­cia­tion, a po­si­tion he held at the time of his death, as well as that of pre­si­dent of the Gads Hill Cen­ter. He was a mem­ber of the ar­chi­tec­tu­ral firm of Pond & Pond, Mar­tin & Lloyd of Chi­cago. As a mem­ber of the Ame­ri­can In­sti­tute of Ar­chi­tects, he ser­ved on many com­mit­tees. As a re­sult of his mo­nu­men­tal work on stan­dar­di­zing the spe­ci­fi­ca­ti­ons and contract do­cu­ments of the In­sti­tute, he was made a Fel­low in 1907. Among his other ar­chi­tec­tu­ral af­fi­lia­ti­ons was that with the Il­li­nois So­ciety of Ar­chi­tects.