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Plate 110 from The Plan of Chicago, 1909: Chicago. Plan of the Complete System of Street Circulation; Railway Stations; Parks, Boulevard Circuits and Radial Arteries; Public Recreation Piers, Yacht Harbor, and Pleasure-Boat Piers; Treatment of Grant Park; the Main Axis and the Civic Center, Presenting the City as a Complete Organism in which All its Functions are Related One to Another in such a Manner that it will Become a Unit

Daniel Hudson Burnham

1909

Plate 110 from The Plan of Chicago, 1909: Chicago. Plan of the Complete System of Street Circulation; Railway Stations; Parks, Boulevard Circuits and Radial Arteries; Public Recreation Piers, Yacht Harbor, and Pleasure-Boat Piers; Treatment of Grant Park; the Main Axis and the Civic Center, Presenting the City as a Complete Organism in which All its Functions are Related One to Another in such a Manner that it will Become a Unit by Daniel Hudson Burnham

Medium

Ink and wash on paper

Dimensions

103 × 127.8 cm (40 1/2 × 50 1/4 in.)

Classification

ink

Department

Architecture and Design

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Accession Number

196350

About the Artist

Daniel Hudson Burnham · 1846–1912

Daniel Hudson Burnham (1846–1912) was one of the most influential American architects and urban planners of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Born in Henderson, New York, he twice failed the entrance examinations for Harvard and Yale, eventually finding his calling through an apprenticeship in architecture. His transformative partnership with John Wellborn Root, formed in Chicago in 1873, establ...

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