 When he was in New York City, Bourgeois joined the community there but then soon moved to Teaneck, New Jersey to expand the Baháʼí community there.Louis Bourgeois may be best known as the architect of the Baháʼí House of Worship in Wilmette, suburban Cook County, Illinois.To give Abdu'l-Baha an idea of the design direction he would take, he sent a plan that he had previously submitted for the eight-sided Peace Palace and Library in The Hague.