| Description |
x, 384 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm. |
| ISBN |
9780226905617 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
|
0226905616 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 367- 373) and index. |
| Contents |
Part I. A Proper Bostonian's Chicago -- The Union Club, self-made men, and Chicago's first period of growth -- Three mansions, four self-makers, and Chicago's metropolitan expansion -- The Chicago Opera House and the Owings Building: Skyscrapers and rationalized work I -- Cultural politics and the Newberry Library's compartmentalization of knowledge -- Part II. Cultural institutions and metropolitan maturity -- Cobb's varieties of the Romanesque -- Skyscrapers and rationalized Work II -- Self-made men, civic culture, and the University of Chicago (1889-1893) -- Science, self-makers, and the University's Second Building Campaign (1893-1897) -- Public square and the Federal Building: Design, civic discourse, and rationalized government -- Falls from grace --Chicago in New York. |
| Series |
Chicago architecture and urbanism.
|
| Library Class |
Fine Arts JN484
|
| Subject |
Cobb, Henry Ives, 1859-1931.
|
|
University of Chicago -- Buildings.
|
|
Architecture -- Illinois -- Chicago.
|
|
