| Description |
1 online resource (395 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Chicago architecture and urbanism
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Chicago architecture and urbanism.
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| Contents |
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). |
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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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-373) and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cobb, Henry Ives, 1859-1931.
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Cobb, Henry Ives, 1859-1931. |
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University of Chicago -- Buildings.
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University of Chicago. |
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Buildings. |
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Architecture -- Illinois -- Chicago.
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Architecture. |
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Illinois -- Chicago. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wolner, Edward W. Henry Ives Cobb's Chicago : Architecture, Institutions, and the Making of a Modern Metropolis. Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press, ©2011 9780226905617 |
| ISBN |
9780226905631 (electronic book) |
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0226905632 (electronic book) |
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1283362945 |
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9781283362948 |
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9780226905617 (hardback ; acid-free paper) |
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0226905616 (hardback ; acid-free paper) |
| Standard No. |
9786613362940 |
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