DAY 5

Early Skyscrapers in Chicago, IL. – Burnham and Root

Just after college I moved to Chicago, I only lived there for a year, but, I must have spent the majority of that time looking up, entranced by early skyscrapers. Particularly those designed by Daniel Burnham and John Root.

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D.H. Burnham and Co. – Fisher Building – 1896.

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Burnham and Root – Monadnock Building 1889-1893

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D.H. Burnham and Co. – Reliance Building 1890-1895.

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Burnham and Root – Rookery 1885-1888.

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All photos are from UIC Digital Collection’s Photostream on Flickr and have been used under Creative Commons License.

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