BURNHAM ARCHITECTURAL TOUR 50 KEY TO SYMBOLS “ Make no Little Plans; they have 40 Improvements proposed Chicago Landmark no magic to stir men’s blood and 36 Continental Bank & Trust of Illinois National Register of Historic Places KINZIE 400 N 19 0 9 in the Plan of Chicago 231 S. LaSalle St. | 1924, Graham, Anderson, Probst & White probably themselves will not be National Historic Landmark 35 37 Pittsfield Building realized. Make big plans; aim high 1 Michigan Avenue Bridge and Esplanade Michigan Ave. at Wacker Dr. | 1920 | 1926, Edward H. Bennett | Publicly-accessible historic interior 1 Chicago River 55 E. Washington St. | 1927, Graham, Anderson, in hope and work, remembering 1928, Henry Hering and James Earl Fraser, (sculptors) 49 Probst & White CTA rail station 300 N 48 The 38-story Pittsfield Building combines both Art Deco and that a noble, logical diagram once 2 Chicago River Bridges and Bridgehouses 43 Gothic detailing and illustrates the influence of the city's 1923 Chicago River at Wabash, Clark, LaSalle, Wells, 2 zoning ordinance which encouraged skyscrapers with setback recorded will never die, but long Franklin-Orleans, Jackson, Adams, Monroe, Madison, towers. The interior of the building features an outstanding 2 2 2 Washington and Lake streets. | 1913–1930, Various bridge 2 WACKER five-story atrium embellished by glowing marbles, gleaming after we are gone will be a living designers & engineers, with Bennett, Parsons & Frost, brasses and carvings in a Spanish Gothic style. consulting architects 44 41 thing, asserting itself with ever 38 Old Heidelberg Restaurant Building 3 Congress Drive Bridge, Pylons, and Plaza 2 14 W. Randolph St. | 1934, Graham, Anderson, growing insistency.” Daniel H. Burnham Congress Plaza at Michigan Ave. | 1916–1930, Edward H. 200 N Probst & White Graham, Anderson, Probst & White & Probst Anderson, Graham, — Daniel H. Burnham THE MAN, THE PLAN, Bennett; 1928, Ivan Mestrovic (sculptor) 42 39 Straus Building Published posthumously as part of Burnham’s obituary 4 Chicago History Museum THE LEGACY U.S. Post Office 15 310 S. Michigan Ave. | 1924, Graham, 433 W. Van Buren St. | 1932, Graham, in Collier’s National Weekly, July 6, 1912 38 Anderson, Probst & White Anderson, Probst & White RANDOLPH 150 N 40 Wrigley Building 5 Grant Park RANDOLPH 400 & 410 N. Michigan Ave. | 1924, 1903–1907, Olmsted Brothers; 15 Graham, Anderson, Probst & White 17 1916–1930, Bennett, 47 Built for chewing-gum magnate Daniel H. Burnham (1846–1912) Parsons & Frost William Wrigley, Jr., the building tow- 2 WASHINGTON Burnham & Root (1873–91) 6 Balbo Drive Bridge and Pylons 100 N er’s form and ornament was inspired by the Giralda Tower of the Seville Cathedral D.H. Burnham & Charles Atwood (1892–94) Balbo Dr. at Michigan Ave. | 1925, Bennett, 21 25 37 Pritzker 12 in Spain. Shortly after its completion in the Parsons & Frost 46 32 30 Pavilion D.H. Burnham & Co. (1894–1912) 2009 mid-1920s, the building helped spur a building 7 Clarence Buckingham Memorial W 50 W 00 350 W 350 boom along North Michigan Avenue, soon making it the city’s Daniel H. Burnham, architect and premier urban planner, W 300 1 1 W 50 1 E/W 100 E Fountain and Garden 2 MADISON 1 N/S 20 most prestigious commercial thoroughfare. was the driving force of the 1909 Plan of Chicago. Although Bounded by Lake Shore Dr., Balbo Dr., Columbus Ave. & 41 Jackson Blvd. | 1927, Bennett, Parsons & Frost, Jacques 29 Carbide & Carbon Building born in New York State, Chicago became his home from MILLENNIUM 230 N. Michigan Ave. | 1929, Burnham Brothers, Inc. early childhood. The aspiring architect appren- Lambert (engineer) and Marcel Loyau (sculptor) STATE 14 CANAL WACKER WELLS CLARK LASALLE DEARBORN FRANKLIN PARK COLUMBUS MICHIGAN 42 Medical & Dental Arts Building ticed under pioneering architect 8 East Jackson Boulevard Bridge WABASH 2 MONROE 100 S East Jackson Blvd. at Michigan Ave. 185 N. Wabash Ave. | 1927, Burnham Brothers, Inc. and “father of the skyscraper,” 31 23 1925, Bennett, Parsons & Frost Thall Bob by Photo William LeBaron Jenney. 9 Select buildings that reflect the Later while a draftsman Pedestrian Bridge, 34 16 27 Van Buren Street Art 5 principles of the Burnham Plan at Carter, Drake, and 401 S. Michigan Ave. 1925 | 2 ADAMS 200 N Institute John Miller © Hedrich Blessing Wight, Burnham met Bennett, Parsons & Frost Sears 19 18 13 43 John Wellborn Root, 26 GRANT 333 North Michigan Building 10 10 Tower Union Station 333 N. Michigan Ave. | 1928, Holabird & who became his 210 S. Canal St. | 1913–1925, 33 36 28 PARK Roche/Root partner from 1873 Graham, Anderson, Probst 2 JACKSON 300 S 8 44 & White 35 E. Wacker Building until 1891. With 39 35 E. Wacker Dr. | 1927, Giaver & Dinkelberg the organizational The 40-story "Jeweler's Building" is marked 24 45 ability of Burnham Select buildings by 11 by its Beaux-Arts detailing and five domes. 22 The building's terra cotta-clad, classical design and the design talents Daniel Burnham and successor firms VAN BUREN 400 S 9 marks it as one of the most prominent high- of Root, the two cre- MICHIGAN Harold rise statements along the river of the City Beautiful ated a legacy that would 11 Monadnock Block 4 Washington Movement. continue to dominate com- 53 W. Jackson Blvd | 1891, Burnham & Root | 1891–93, Holabird Library DR SHORE LAKE 45 Chicago Board of Trade mercial architecture well into the & Roche Chicago History Museum EISENHOWER EXPY LAKE 141 W. Jackson Blvd. | 1930, Holabird & Root City of Chicago Built in two halves, the earlier north part is 500 S CONGRESS 3 7 20th century. When master planning The Chicago Board of Trade is one of the city's finest examples Richard M. Daley, Mayor a masonry load-bearing structure and of Art Deco architecture, a style of the 1920s and for the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition fell to Burnham the last and world’s tallest skyscraper to 30s characterized by its use of cubic forms, following Root’s death, his classical “City Beautiful” aes- employ this method of construction, geometric ornament, and sleek surface with six-foot thick walls at the base. The thetic gained him an international reputation. The firm of materials. The unrelieved verticality of the Department of Zoning and Land Use Planning later south addition is an early example D. H. Burnham & Company went on to create city plans north facade provides a dramatic termi- of steel-frame construction. for Washington, DC, Cleveland and San Francisco. After Patricia A. Scudiero, Commissioner nation to LaSalle Street. The two-story 12 Burnham’s death in 1912, the successor firms of Graham, Commission on Chicago Landmarks Reliance Building lobby is one of the city’s finest examples 32 N. State St. | Base: 1890, Burnham & of this period of design. Burnham & Co. (1912–1917), Graham Anderson Probst & David R. Mosena, Chairman Root | Upper stories: 1895, D. H. 46 Chicago Daily News Building White (1917–present) and Burnham Brothers, Inc. (1924– Burnham & Co. 6 BALBO Historic Preservation Division 2 N. Riverside | 1929, Holabird & Root 1933), continued his influence. Expansive windows and Gothic- 33 N. LaSalle St., Room 1600 The former home of the Chicago ornamented terra cotta give this 24 Insurance Exchange Building Chicago, IL 60602 18 Rookery Building 32 Civic Opera Building Daily News, this Art Deco-style building a light and airy appear- 175 W. Jackson Blvd. | 1912, D. H. Burnham & Co. | 1928, Graham, 312.744.3200 312.744.2575 TTY 209 S. LaSalle St | 1888, Burnham 20 N. Wacker Dr. | 1929, Graham, Anderson, Probst & White building was one of the first ance befitting its international Anderson, Probst & White & Root This ornate, French Renaissance Revival-style structure com- Chicago buildings constructed [email protected] reputation as a forerunner of 20th- Designed in the Romanesque 25 bines a 45-story office tower with a 3,650-seat opera theater. over a railroad right-of-way. Facing cityofchicago.org/landmarks century glass-and-steel skyscrapers. Marshall Field & Co. Men’s Store Edward H. Bennett (1874–1954) Revival style, the Rookery employs In contrast, the building's Art Deco-style exterior faces the 25 E. Washington | 1911, D. H. Burnham & Co. the Chicago River, it also typifies Bennett, Parsons & Frost (1924–1938) 13 both masonry load-bearing and Chicago River and is shaped like an Bankers Building the beautification of the riverfront The Commission on Chicago Landmarks, whose ten members skeletal-frame construction techniques. 26 Orchestra Hall enormous armchair, which led 105 W. Adams St. | 1927, Burnham Brothers, Inc. corridor envisioned by the 1909 Plan of English-born architect Edward H. Bennett fashioned are appointed by the Mayor and City Council, was established Shortly after its completion, Burnham & 220 S. Michigan Ave. | 1905, D. H. Burnham & Co. to the nickname of “Insull’s Chicago, with the building’s “arms” flanking a 14 Carson Pirie Scott & Company Building Burnham’s big plans into achievable ideas. Bennett arrived in 1968 by city ordinance. The Commission is responsible for Root moved their architectural practice to the 11th floor. In 1905, 27 People’s Gas Building throne,” after the building’s pedestrian plaza. 1 S. State St. | Built in stages, 1899 | 1903, Louis H. Frank Lloyd Wright remodeled the building’s skylit lobby with developer, utilities magnate in California in 1890 to seek his fortune as a rancher recommending to City Council buildings, sites, objects and dis- Sullivan | 1906, D. H. Burnham & Co. 122 S. Michigan Ave. | 1910, D. H. Burnham & Co. 47 Chicago Public Library/Cultural Center tricts for designation as Chicago Landmarks. The Commission elements of his Prairie School designs. Samuel Insull. The interior of and found work instead at a series of 15 28 Railway Exchange Building the opera house features a 78 E.