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Author | : Roger Prioleau |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2021-02-25 |
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Though a number of historic mansions have been adapted and reused as hotels, offices, museums, or condos, some still serve their original purpose by sheltering a single family in Chicago. This book includes: - Mansions of the south side - North side mansions - Historic west side mansions - Lost mansions And much other useful information!
Author | : John Graf |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738533612 |
A pictorial history of Chicago's mansions includes fashionable residences designed by such architects as Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Henry Hobson Richardson, Daniel Burnham, and John Wellborn Root.
Author | : Susan S. Benjamin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Architecture |
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The first authoritative study of Chicago's city houses, portraying a private world of midwestern splendor.
Author | : Stuart Earl Cohen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Architecture |
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The suburban residential area running north above Chicago along
Author | : Wilbert Jones |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0738591777 |
What was once described as an undesirable swampland has been transformed into one of the most beautiful and wealthiest neighborhoods in America. Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood, developed in the late 1800s, was first called the Astor Street District. It was named after one of the first multimillionaires in the United States, John Jacob Astor--even though Astor never lived in Chicago. In 1885, Astor Street District's first mansion was built. Potter Palmer, a dry goods merchant and owner of the Palmer House Hotel, built his palatial, castle-like residence on the corner of Lake Shore Drive and Banks Street; inside the Palmer mansion were 42 lavishly furnished rooms, which required 26 servants to maintain. Many wealthy Chicagoans followed Palmer's lead and built mansions in the neighborhood. Several homes took up an entire city block and, as time progressed, the name Gold Coast was adopted. On January 30, 1978, the entire Gold Coast district was listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Join authors Wilbert Jones, Maureen V. O'Brien, and Kathleen Willis Morton, longtime residents of the Gold Coast, on an engrossing journey through the neighborhood's history. Includes archival images along with the more contemporary images of photographer Bob Dowey.
Author | : Mary Alice Molloy |
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Total Pages | : 27 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Chicago (Ill.) |
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Author | : Panache Partners LLC. |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Architect-designed houses |
ISBN | : 9781933415345 |
Loaded with hundreds of photographs of high-end custom homes, these gorgeous books are a treat for lovers of residential architecture and a resource for people planning to build their own one-of-a-kind homes. Profiles of top architects and information on local builders provide an overview of regional styles and preferences in each city. More than 300 photographs of beautiful custom houses in the Chicago area showcase the work of architects from such firms as Frederick Phillips and Associates, Hancock & Hancock, and Michael Hershenson Architects.
Author | : Susan Benjamin |
Publisher | : The Monacelli Press, LLC |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2020-09-01 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1580935265 |
The first survey of the classic twentieth-century houses that defined American Midwestern modernism. Famed as the birthplace of that icon of twentieth-century architecture, the skyscraper, Chicago also cultivated a more humble but no less consequential form of modernism--the private residence. Modern in the Middle: Chicago Houses 1929-75 explores the substantial yet overlooked role that Chicago and its suburbs played in the development of the modern single-family house in the twentieth century. In a city often associated with the outsize reputations of Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the examples discussed in this generously illustrated book expand and enrich the story of the region's built environment. Authors Susan Benjamin and Michelangelo Sabatino survey dozens of influential houses by architects whose contributions are ripe for reappraisal, such as Paul Schweikher, Harry Weese, Keck & Keck, and William Pereira. From the bold, early example of the "Battledeck House" by Henry Dubin (1930) to John Vinci and Lawrence Kenny's gem the Freeark House (1975), the generation-spanning residences discussed here reveal how these architects contended with climate and natural setting while negotiating the dominant influences of Wright and Mies. They also reveal how residential clients--typically middle-class professionals, progressive in their thinking--helped to trailblaze modern architecture in America. Though reflecting different approaches to site, space, structure, and materials, the examples in Modern in the Middle reveal an abundance of astonishing houses that have never been collected into one study--until now.
Author | : John Drury |
Publisher | : Random House Value Publishing |
Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 1941 |
Genre | : Architecture |
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A collection of articles that originally appeared in the Chicago Daily News from March 1939 through February 1941, presenting "a blend of historical, biographical, architectural, and social facts" for each entry.
Author | : William H. Tyre |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738525273 |
Prairie Avenue evolved into Chicago's most exclusive residential street during the late 19th century, when the city's wealthiest and most influential citizens built lavish homes here. The area began to decline around 1900, but experienced a renaissance in the late 20th century.