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Henry Ives Cobb: Ryerson and Burnham Libraries: the Art Institut Henry Ives Cobb: Ryerson and Burnham Libraries: The Art Institut... http://www.artic.edu/aic/libraries/research/specialcollections/cobb/... Share Search HOME COLLECTION EXHIBITIONS CALENDAR FAMILIES VISIT EDUCATION LIBRARIES ABOUT US MEMBERS INTERACT SHOP You are here: Home > Libraries > Henry Ives Cobb Henry Ives Cobb Libraries' Catalog Research Find: Books & Journals Articles e-Journals & e-Newspapers Images Henry Ives Cobb, born in Brookline, Massachusetts in 1859, was descended from old New England families. He Auction Resources studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and graduated from Harvard University as an engineer, also completing a special architecture course with William L. Ware. After his graduation in 1880, he made the Grand Special & Digital Tour of Europe, then began his architectural career at Peabody and Stearns, a prominent Boston firm. Collections Databases A-Z In 1881, Cobb won a commission for a new clubhouse for the Union Club in Chicago. His brother, already Services established in Chicago and an officer of the exclusive Union Club, may have helped young Cobb get the commission. Cobb came to Chicago to supervise the construction, established his office, married well, and began a About the Libraries career dazzling in its speedy success. In the next fifteen years he received a significant number of commissions for Visit the Libraries important public buildings, major residences, commercial buildings, plus the Fisheries Building, one of the ten principal buildings at the World's Columbian Exposition. He did work for some of the most important institutions in Contact the Libraries the region: The University of Chicago, the Newberry Library, the Chicago Historical Society, and Lake Forest College. He also designed churches, two observatories, two major clubs, and an apartment building. His largest commission, and most controversial, was the Chicago post office and federal building, completed in 1905. Shortly after he arrived in Chicago in 1882, Cobb persuaded Charles Sumner Frost, a fellow architect from Peabody and Stearns, to join him in forming the partnership Cobb and Frost. According to contemporary evidence, Frost was the engineer and supervisor of construction. Cobb was customarily described as the principal designer for Cobb and Frost, and he bore final responsibility for all the work that left his office, even during his early partnership with Frost. Cobb was also the principal salesman. His efforts to secure work, first for the firm and later for himself, met with great success. He was enormously productive, both in getting commissions and in executing them. Although the execution was often late, he withstood clients' reproofs with composure and his career seems not to have suffered in the least. In what little survives of his correspondence, there is evidence of a gentlemanly self-assurance, an air of self-confidence in his education, social position and abilities. The partnership with Frost was dissolved at the end of 1888 so that Cobb could devote all his time to the Newberry Library commission. In the years after 1888 Cobb received most of his largest or most significant commissions. His office at its height in 1892 employed 130 people, the largest in Chicago at the time. Through the financial panic of 1893 and the ensuing depression, his Chicago office continued to be busy. He relocated to New York City in 1902, where he died in 1931. Although his career on the East Coast was longer than his Chicago residency, he had fewer and less important commissions. Acknowledgements This web page is based on the long-time interest in Cobb by Art Institute Trustee Julius Lewis. His 1954 thesis at the University of Chicago, Henry Ives Cobb and the Chicago School, was the first consideration of Cobb's work since that of Montgomery Schuyler in 1896. We are grateful for his long-term interest and support of the Libraries, for his permission to use text from the thesis and its later revisions and photography which he commissioned, and for his extremely sharp proof-reading eye. The following survey of Cobb's work in the Midwest contains image galleries which are arranged according to four building types: residential, commercial, educational, and other. Within each group the buildings are arranged chronologically. Additionally, the Archives' staff has compiled an addendum documenting Cobb's work outside the Midwest. As Cobb's papers were destroyed after his death in 1 of 2 10/5/09 2:06 PM Henry Ives Cobb: Ryerson and Burnham Libraries: The Art Institut... http://www.artic.edu/aic/libraries/research/specialcollections/cobb/... 1931, research on Cobb's career must rely primarily on published sources such as Inland Architect and News Record, Architectural Record, Western Architect, American Contractor and the Chicago Tribune. Support for the creation of this website was provided by Julius Lewis and by the Rhoades Foundation. In the Department of Graphic Design, Executive Director Lyn Delliquadri, Webmaster & Multimedia Technologist Dave Ciske, and Graphic Designers Krystal Kimlick and Jeff Walls worked design and production into their overbusy schedules with aplomb. Nathaniel Parks, Assistant Archivist at the Ryerson & Burnham Archives, also contributed significantly to this project. Image Galleries: Image Galleries: Commercial and Residential Works Educational and Other Works Residential 1880-1889 Educational 1880-1889 Residential 1890-1899 Educational 1890-1894 Residential 1900- and undated Educational 1894-1899 Commercial 1880-1889 Other 1880-1889 Commercial 1890-1899 Other 1890-1899 Commercial 1900- and undated Other 1900- and undated Addendum Non-Midwest Work Ryerson & Burnham Archives Additional Resources Browse Related Finding Aids Print Version Architects' and Designers' Papers Download a printable version of this entire Architects' Portraits Collection Cobb website here Burnham Library–University of Illinois Project to Microfilm Architectural Documentation Records Other Related Collections Daniel H. Burnham Collection Charles S. Frost Letterpress Copybook American Contractor's Chicago Building Permit J.W. Taylor Photograph Collection Index Chicago History Museum Browse Digital Collections Lake Forest College, Archives and Special Collections All Henry Ives Cobb Images Industrial Chicago All Cobb and Frost Images University of Chicago Library, Department of Buildings and Grounds Records Contact the Archives Phone: (312) 443-7292 E-mail: [email protected] Archives Access Policies Search Site Map Contact Us E-Newsletter Image Licensing The School of the Art Institute The Collection | Exhibitions | Calendar | Visit | Families | Education | Libraries | About Us | Members | Shop © 2009 The Art Institute of Chicago, 111 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, 60603-6404 Terms and Conditions | All text and images on this site are protected by U.S. and international copyright laws. Unauthorized use is prohibited. 2 of 2 10/5/09 2:06 PM The Art Institute of Chicago: Libraries: Henry Ives Cobb http://www.artic.edu/aic/libraries/research/specialcollections/cobb/... Share Search HOME COLLECTION EXHIBITIONS CALENDAR FAMILIES VISIT EDUCATION LIBRARIES ABOUT US MEMBERS INTERACT SHOP You are here: Home > Libraries > Henry Ives Cobb > Henry Ives Cobb Henry Ives Cobb Libraries' Catalog Research Residential Commercial Educational Other Find: 1880–1889 1880–1889 1880–1889 1880–1889 Books & Journals 1890–1899 1890–1899 1890–1894 1890–1899 1900– and undated 1900– and undated 1895–1899 1900– and undated Articles e-Journals & Residential 1880–1889 e-Newspapers Images McCormick Summer Residence unidentified location Auction Resources Cobb and Frost, 1882 Special & Digital Collections An 1882 building permit, filed within two weeks of the permit for the Potter Palmer mansion, exists for a "summer residence" for Leander J. McCormick for a Databases A-Z proposed cost of $80,000. McCormick was the brother and partner of Cyrus Services McCormick, inventor of the famous McCormick Reaper. This house was never built. About the Libraries Visit the Libraries Contact the Libraries Palmer, Potter, Residence 1350 N. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL Cobb and Frost, 1882 Map View additional images Demolished in 1950, Potter Palmer's mansion was listed at a cost of $90,000 at a time when $8,000 built a three-story house. The merchant, hotelier, and real estate investor Palmer assembled a huge tract of mostly empty land north of the river and near the lakefront. At the northeast corner of his holdings, he ordered the construction of a large and splendid house. Built of a rusticated brownstone banded in sharply contrasting sandstone, the house was a vast, irregular mass with a porte-cochère and principal entrance placed diagonally to the main elements at the northeast corner. Pairs of banded columns of a smooth polished stone terminating in elaborate capitals flanked the entry, while an eighty-foot high tower rose from behind it. At the northeast corner of the tower, an attached round tower rose even higher and ended in a crenellated cap supported by a massive circle of corbels. A smaller tourelle formed the southeast corner of the battlement. One entered the interior via a small vestibule that opened into a three-story skylit, octagonal hall. The hall communicated with the main stairway and all of the principal rooms on the first floor, an organizational pattern that Cobb frequently employed. Though the lavish interior of rare hardwoods and polished stone is attributed to other decorators and architects, at least some of the
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