Re: (rshsdepot) Daniel Burnham

["Gene Paoli" <stationman_@_prodigy.net>]

You asked for it, so here it is.....                Burnham, Daniel Hudson
1846-1912
                Architect and City Planner

        Born in Henderson, New York 09/04/1846, and relocated to Chicago,
        Ill. in 1856 where he was educated and went on to receive several
        degrees, however his chief architectural foundation was laid as he
        apprented with William Le Baron Jenney.

        His partnership with John Wellborn Root (1850-91) was established
        in 1872 when he met John Root in the office of Carter, Drake and
        Wright in Chicago where both men were employed as draftsmen along
        with William Holibird and Pierce Anderson, to name a few.
Eventually,
        all these men would be known as the "Chicago School" of Architects
        and designed many of the most famous buildings in the US in firms
        such as D. H. Burnham & Company and Graham, Anderson, Probst &
White.

        In  1892, Burnham was appointed Chief (supervisor) of Construction
        and Director of Works for the World's Columbian Exposition (1893
        World's Fair) in Chicago, and his partner Root was appointed
        (supervisor) Chief Consulting architect, a position Burnham would
        also fill after Root's death in 1891.

        Burnham's buildings are noteable for thier Beaux-arts, neo-classical
        look and are constructed in any number of building materials.

        Burnham is buried under natural glacial granite boulders on a
        small island near the northern end of Lake Willomere, Ill.,
        reachable via a permanent footbridge.
        Burnham Park, located along Lake Michigan is named in honor
        of him.

             "Make no little plans,
             they have no magic
             to stir men's blood."
                .... D. H. Burnham

        Designs:
          Montauk Block, Chicago (1881-2).
          Marshall Field's Store, Chicago, Ill
          Kent House, Chicago, Ill.
          Masonic Temple (demolished), Chicago, Ill.
          Monadnock Building,
          Reliance Building, Chicago, Ill.
          The Rookery, Chicago, Ill.
          St. Gabriel's Church, Chicago, Ill.
          Frick Building, Grant and Fifth, Pittsburgh, Pa. (1901-2)
          Oliver Building (Henry W.), 535 Smithfield St, Pittsburgh, Pa.
(1908-10)

        City planning:
          Washington, DC (1901-2)
          Chicago (1909)
          San Francisco city plan after the great earthquake.
          Manila in the Phillipines
          Cleveland, Ohio
          Baltimore, MD
        1893 World's Columbian Exposition
        The "City Beautiful' movement(1909 Chicago, Ill. "White City" plan)
        First chairman of the National Commission of Fine Arts (1910-12)
        Helped found the American Academy in Rome.
        Designed over a dozen bldgs in Pittsburgh, PA 1898-1910.
        Designed several public buildings in Philadelphia, Pa.
        Awarded a gold medal at the St. Louis Exposition in 1904.
        President of the American Institute of Architects in 1894.
        Member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters
        Awarded a bronze medal at the Paris Exposition in 1900.

      Chicago commissions with associates:
        Museum of Science and Industry,
        Charles Atwood

        35 E. Wacker Building,
        Daniel Burnham/Frederick Dinkelberg

        Plan for Chicago,
        Daniel Burnham/Edward H. Bennett (Michigan Avenue Bridge)

        Civic Opera Building, Field Building, Field Museum,
        Merchandise Mart, Union Station, and Wrigley Building,
        Daniel Burnham/Grahm, Anderson, Probst and White

      New York commissions with associates:
        03.22.1887
        Gimbels,
        33rd & Sixth Avenue
        (1910/1925)
        Daniel Burnham/ Shreve & Lamb

        07.21.91
        Flatiron Building,
        23rd & Fifth
        (1902) -naming myth
        Daniel Burnham/ Hurley & Farinella/ Richard Balser

        Ellicott Square Bldg.,
        Buffalo, NY

      Pittsburgh commissions with associates:
        Phipps Conservatory,
        Schenley Park
        (1893)
        Lord and Burnham

        South Park Botanical Gardens,
        Lord & Burnham Co

   Railroad commissions:

     People's Gas and the
     Railway Exchange
     122 and 224 S. Michigan
     Chicago, Ill.

     Chicago Union Station
     Pennsylvania RR Co.
     train station
     Chicago, ILL.

     Pennsylvania Station
     30th Street
     Pennsylvania RR Co.
     competition entry
     Phila., Pa

     Railroad Station
     Illinois Central RR Co.
     1907
     Vicksburg, Miss

     Coumbus Union Station
     Pennsylvania RR Co.
     Train station
     Train shed
     boiler house
     1901
     Columbus, OHIO

     Wabash Terminal
     Wabash RR Co.
     train station
     train shed
     Pittsburgh, PA

     Union Station
     Pennsylvania RR Co.
     Liberty Ave and 12th Street
     train station
     rotunda
     train shed
     boiler house
     office building
     interlocking tower
     1901-1903
     Pittsburgh, PA

     Washington Union Station
     Pennsylvania RR Co.
     Washington Terminal Co.
     Baltimore & Ohio RR Co.
     train staion
     1907
     Washington, D. C.

     Wanamakers Dept Store
     Pennsylvania RR Co.
     John Wanamaker
     (former PRR freight station)
     1300 Market st
     1902-1911
     Phila., PA

     Cincinatti Union Station
     train station
     office building
     Cincinatti, Ohio

     Richmond Passenger Station
     Pennsylvania RR Co.
     express annex
     passenger station
     Richmond, Indiana

     Entrance Gate/ Triumph Arch
     Chicago Transit Company
     1874-6
     Union Stock Yard
     Exchange Avenue and Peoria Street
     Chicago, Ill

         A steer head is a representation of J. B. Sherman's (founder
         of the Transit Company) award winning steer. The arch is
         constructed in limestone and served to mark the entrance to
         the 475 acre Union Stock Yard site. It was designated a
         Landmark in 1972.

     Written by EuGene J. Paoli
     stationman_@_prodigy.net


      Architectural Record; University of Pennsylvania -Architectural
      Department; Philadelphia Architectural and Building Record; East
      Liberty Branch Library-Architecture in Pittsburgh, Pittburgh, Pa.
      "Burnham of Chicago, Architect and Planner,by "Thomas S. Hines',1974;
      Chicago Landmarks; Encyclopaedia Britannica;
      Adolf K Placzek. Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects. Vol. 1. London:
The
      Free Press, 1982. ISBN 0-02-925000-5. NA40.M25.
      Dennis Sharp. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Architects and
Architecture.
      New York: Quatro Publishing, 1991. ISBN 0-8230-2539-X. NA40.I45. p3
      Brief Biographies of American Architects, American Art Annual, E. G.
      Shettleworth, Jr., revised 1997, Maine Historic Preservation
Commission


- ----- Original Message -----
From: Doug Goss <doug_goss_@_co.wayne.in.us>
To: <rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 8:41 PM
Subject: (rshsdepot) Daniel Burnham


> I am interested in obtaining information about depots designed by Daniel
> Burnham. Burnham is the architect of the station in Washington, DC., the
> Flatiron Building, and did the city planning for the city of Chicago. He
> also designed the depot in Richmond, Indiana which I am helping to save.
> I have a website that has info about the Richmond depot at
> www.railroaddays.org
> Thanks
> Doug Goss
>
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> The Railroad Station Historical Society maintains a database of existing
> railroad structures at: http://www.rrshs.org
>

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