Daniel H' Burnham

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Daniel H. Burnham

• City Beautiful Movement

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Progressive Era 1890-1915

• Efficient Rational Management of the Urban
  Landscape and its people

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Daniel H. Burnham

• Architect turned City Planner
• An apprentice to William Le Baron Jenney
• the father of the skyscraper
• Burnham Root
• Chicago School of Architecture

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Chicago Architecture

• Reliance Building
• 32 N. State - 1890 1894
• Union Stock Yard Gate
• Exchange Av Peoria St. circa 1875

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Chicago Architecture

• Carson Pirie Scott
• 1898-99/1902-1906
• World Columbian Exposition 1893
• The White City

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The Chicago Plan
Buckinham Fountain 1927
Lakefront 1934
Lake Shore Drive 1938
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Daniel H. Burnham

• Make no little plans they have no magic to stir
  men's blood...Make big plans, aim high in hope
  and work.
• Died 1912