This Chicago-based firm was founded in 1905 by Benjamin Henry Marshall (1874-1940) and Charles Eli Fox (1870-1926).

Marshall, a native of Chicago, began his career in 1893 as an apprentice at the Chicago architectural firm of Marble & Wilson. Following Oliver W. Marble's death in 1895, Marshall was made partner, though he wouldn't stay at the firm for long, choosing instead to branch out on his own in 1902.

Fox was from Reading, Pa., and studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He relocated to Chicago in 1891 to work for the firm Holabird & Roche before teaming up with Marshall in 1905.

Together, they would establish a reputation for stunning theaters, hotels and apartment buildings, mostly in Chicago. Indeed, the firm would become one of the city's most important and legendary firms.

Though the firm did design other structures In Michigan, its only known work in Detroit was the Gabriel Richard Building of 1915.

Following Fox’s death in 1926 and Marshall's retirement in 1935, Marshall & Fox was reorganized as Walton & Kegley and then in 1950 as Walton & Walton. The firm closed up shop in 1969.