Chicago's Mansions By John Graf
Featuring the Museum and ICS headquarters mansions!
Chicago is known throughout the world for its architecture. Although many
people are familiar with the city's skyscrapers and public buildings, they
often overlook or are unaware of Chicago's mansions that are located throughout
the city. These mansions represent Chicago's past and its future, and it can
even be said that they are the very embodiment of Chicago and its architecture.
These fashionable residences were built to make a statement, and what better
way to have done this than to employ the leading architects of the time to
design them. These architects included men such as Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd
Wright, Henry Hobson Richardson, Daniel Burnham, and John Wellborn Root. While
the city's mansions are significant because of who built them, they are just as
important because of who lived in them. Many of these mansions were built for
Chicago's elite businessmen and captains of industry-men who represented old
money, new money and big money. Just as important were the families of these
men and the other residents who came to live in these mansions-for they left a
legacy of their own that contributed to the city's history.
ISBN: 9780738533612
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Date: 12/01/2004
State: Illinois
Series: Images of America
Images: 200 Pages: 128
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