Henry Ives Cobb's Chicago : Architecture, Institutions, and the Making of a Modern Metropolis.

Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: A Proper Bostonian's Chicago; 1. The Union Club, Self-Made Men, and Chicago's First Period of Growth; 2. Three Mansions, Four Self-Makers, and Chicago's Metropolitan Expansion; 3. Skyscrapers and Rationalized Work I; 4. Cultural Politics and the Newberry Library; Part II: Cultural Institutions and Metropolitan Maturity; 5. Cobb's Varieties of the Romanesque; 6. Skyscrapers and Rationalized Work II; 7. Self-Made Men, Civic Culture, and the University of Chicago (1889-1893).

8. Science, Self-Makers, and the University's Second Building Campaign (1893-1897)9. Design, Civic Discourse, and Rationalized Government; Part III: Trials and Triumphs In and Outside Chicago; 10. Professional Ethics, and the Pennsylvania State Capitol; 11. Falls from Grace; 12. Chicago in New York; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index.

When championing the commercial buildings and homes that made the Windy City famous, one can't help but mention the brilliant names of their architects--Daniel Burnham, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright, among others. But few people are aware of Henry Ives Cobb (1859-1931), the man responsible for an extraordinarily rich chapter in the city's turn-of-the-century building boom, and fewer still realize Cobb's lasting importance as a designer of the private and public institutions that continue to enrich Chicago's exceptional architectural heritage. Henry Ives Cobb's Chicago is the first book.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-373) and index.

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