Achievements and Publications
Purcell was elected a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects in 1963.
Purcell is the author of the 1967 book, St. Croix Trail Country: Recollections of Wisconsin, a memoir of his youth spent in the Wisconsin lake country.
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