Eliphalet W. Blatchford House, Chicago, Illinois, LaSalle Street Elevation and Partial Section
Peter Bonnett Wight
1873/75
Medium
Ink and watercolor on paper
Dimensions
51 × 63 cm (20 1/16 × 24 13/16 in.)
Classification
presentation drawing
Department
Architecture and Design
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
90507
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
New York architect Peter B. Wight was one of the first to bring the High Victorian Gothic style from England to the United States. Wight used this style for many early commissions, such as this house for industrialist Eliphalet Blatchford and his family, built just after the Great Chicago Fire. With polychromatic masonry, metalwork, and an asymmetrical form, this house would have stood out in Chicago as a bold hybrid of influences from 19th-century Great Britain and 15the-century Italy. Wight’s...