Main entry:

Moore, Charles, 1855-1942, author

Title & Author:

Daniel H. Burnham, architect, planner of cities / by Charles Moore.

Publication:

Boston, [Mass.] ; New York, [NY] : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1921.

Description:

2 volumes : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, plans, portraits ; 29 cm

Notes:
"The American Academy in Rome": v. 2, p. 70-96
"The plan of Manila": appendix A, v. 2, p. 177-195; "The plan of Bagulo": appendix B, v. 2, p. 196-202
Includes index.
"The American academy in Rome": v. 2, p. 70-96
v. 1. I. Two centuries of Burnhams, 1635-1846. Responsibilities imposed by ancestors ; The Burnhams of Ipswich, Massachusetts, in Puritan days ; Migrations ; Beginnings of Vermont ; John Burnham delays a hanging ; Burnham Hollow and its industries ; The Burnham fortune in England ; Removal to Henderson, New York ; Swedenborg's teachings ; Birth of Daniel Hudson Burnham ; Removal to Chicago -- II. Finding his feet, 1855-1875. Chicago in its teens ; Edwin Burnham as a Chicago merchant ; Dan Burnham's school days in Chicago and Massachusetts ; Enlists for the Civil War ; Mercantile life lacks charm ; Architecture ; Fever for gold ; The disillusionments of Nevada ; Return to architecture ; John Wellborn Root ; Burnham & Root -- III. Success, 1875-1891. A commission and what came of it ; Marriage ; The first skyscraper ; Chicago office buildings ; Cage construction ; The tallest building in the world ; The spirit of Chicago ; Character of Chicago architecture ; The Richardson influence ; The work of Burnham & Root -- IV. The World's Columbian Exposition, 1891-1893. Origin of the celebration of the Four Hundredth Anniversary of the Discovery of America ; Organization ; James W. Ellsworth enlists Frederick Law Olmsted in the project ; The site ; Preliminary plans ; The organization ; Selection of the architects ; D.H. Burnham, chief of construction ; Meeting of the architects ; Death of John W. Root ; Harry Codman ; Submission of architect's plans ; A dream to be realized ; Charles B. Atwood as a designer -- V. Friendships of the Fair. Sacrifice of private practice ; Life in a shack ; Revels ; Theodore Thomas and his orchestra ; Augustus Saint-Gaudens's head for the Adams Memorial ; Francis Davis Millet and William Eleroy Curtis ; Charles Follen McKim -- VI. Recognition. Dinner to Mr. Burnham by fellow-architects and citizens of New York ; Witty report in the New York Tribune ; A testimonial ; Introduction by Richard M. Hunt ; Mr. Burnham's tribute to Frederick Law Olmsted ; James S. Norton toasts Chicago ; William D. Howells -- VII. Picking up the threads, 1894-1895. Organization of the firm of D.H. Burnham & Co. ; Solution of problems in commercial building ; Professor Charles Eliot Norton's opinions and tributes ; President Charles W. Eliot ; Influence of the Chicago Fair on American architecture ; Characteristics of the Burnham buildings -- VIII. President of the American Institute Of Architects. Election of Mr. Burnham ; Improvement of government architecture ; Achievements of the Institute ; Free preliminary services ; Dangers in competitions ; Duties of the architect to the government ; Trade unionism in the Institute ; Death of Richard Morris Hunt ; Controversy with Secretary Carlisle ; The question of fees for government work ; Some conclusions.
IX. Europe for the first time, 1896. Mr. Burnham a product of the Middle West ; A well-earned vacation ; Funchal as fairyland ; The Mediterranean ; The Riviera ; Malta ; Egypt ; Chicago friends ; The Pyramids ; The Holy Land ; Constantinople ; Athens ; Meeting with Charles McKim ; Rome -- X. The improvement of Washington city, 1901. Beginnings of the National Capital ; Interest shown by President Washington ; The L'Enfant Plan of 1792 ; Decline of public taste ; Effect of the Civil War on Washington ; The L'Enfant Plan mutilated ; Celebration of the Washington Centenary ; Conference between the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia and the American Institute of Architects ; The McMillan Resolution ; Mr. Burnham accepts the chairmanship of the Senate Park Commission ; The membership -- XI. The United States Senate Park Commission, 1901. Mr. Burnham enters upon national service ; The work begins ; Private practice ; Visits to historic places on the James and Potomac Rivers ; Commission to design the Washington Railway Station ; Augustus Saint-Gaudens added to the Commission ; Visit to Europe by Messrs. Burnham, McKim, Olmsted, and Moore ; Momentous interview with President Cassatt in London ; Senator McMillan commissions Mr. Burnham "General" ; Presentation of the Washington Plan -- XII. Washington problems; The Cleveland Plan, 1902. Work on the Washington Union Station ; Problems involved ; Visit to California ; A plan for San Francisco ; Death of J.B. Sherman ; The memorial to General Grant ; Restoration of the White House ; The Flatiron Building ; A group plan for Cleveland ; Charlevoix ; Death of Senator McMillan ; The McKinley Memorial in Buffalo -- XIII. The West Point Plan, 1902-1903. Mr. Burnham accepts Secretary Root's invitation to enter the West Point competition ; Programme troubles ; Questions of style ; Edward H. Bennett ; Compromise rejected ; An ideal development suggested ; Loses in the competition -- XIV. The Washington Station and the Cleveland Group Plan, 1903. Congress completes the legislation for a union station ; Mr. McKim's criticism ; The Chicago Lake Front Plan ; A typical Sunday at Evanston ; Mr. McKim receives the Gold Medal of the R.I.B.A. ; The Cleveland Report presented -- XV. The struggle to preserve the mall in Washington, 1903-1904. Effects of Senator McMillan's death on the Washington Plan ; The first test ; The Agricultural Department Building ; Opposition of Representative Cannon ; Work of Glenn Brown ; Hearing on the Newlands Bill ; Mr. Burnham relates the history of the Washington Plan ; The argument ; President Roosevelt and Secretary Taft to the rescue ; The Consultative Board -- XVI. Far West and Far East : San Francisco, Manila, Baguio, 1904-1905. Secretary Taft invites Mr. Burnham to make plans for Manila and Baguio ; Association for the Improvement of San Francisco arranges for a comprehensive plan ; The shack on Twin Peaks ; The National Museum Building ; Visit to Secretary Paul Morton ; The San Francisco Plan begun ; Willis Polk ; Working in the Philippines -- XVII. The Harvard Yard : a dip into the wilderness, 1905. Burnham diaries ; Visit to Charles Eliot Norton ; Letter from Charles Francis Adams ; Problem of the Harvard Yard ; The Burnham-Millet Report ; Professor Norton's hard task ; Mr. Millet's strictures ; Mr. Burnham made a Doctor of Laws ; Mr. McKim's illness.
v. 2. XVIII. Europe again : The San Francisco Plan : Washington problems, 1906. A pleasure trip with Chicago friends ; Sudden ending ; Presentation of the San Francisco Report ; Senator Phelan's comments ; President Eliot furnishes inscriptions for the Washington Station ; Station statuary by Louis Saint-Gaudens ; Sculpture as applied to architecture ; The Chicago Plan -- XIX. The Chicago Plan -- The Consultative Board -- The Grant Memorial, 1907. Mr. Burnham's theory of the city as a place for people to live and work in ; Work on the plan of Chicago ; Private work ; Location of the Grant Memorial ; Mr. Burnham resigns from the Consultative Board ; Consternation ensues ; Resignation withdrawn ; The Botanic Garden controversy -- XX. In quest of the Gothic, 1907. The annual trip to Europe ; An excursion to Gothic cathedrals ; Professor Charles H. Moore's advice ; English cathedrals ; A Sunday at Warwick ; The French cathedrals ; Illness -- XXI. The Washington Cathedral, 1906-1907. A commission to advise on a Protestant Episcopal Cathedral in Washington ; The question of style ; Bishop Satterlee ; G.F. Bodley commissioned to prepare plans ; Pure Gothic ; Charles McKim's protest ; Burnham-McKim correspondence as to Gothic architecture ; Mr. Burnham expresses his disappointment -- XXII. The American Academy In Rome, 1908. Attacks on the Washington plans ; Visit to Charles McKim ; In London with Frederick Law Olmsted ; Days at the American Academy in Rome ; Foundation of the Academy ; Work of McKim and Burnham ; J.P. Morgan benefactions ; Raising the endowment ; Vicissitudes ; Success -- XXIII. The Plan Of Chicago, 1909. Preparation of the plan ; Edward H. Bennett ; Jules Guérin ; Jules Janin ; Working for the future ; Inception of the plan ; The Merchants and the Commercial Clubs ; Mr. Burnham appeals to the spirit of Chicago ; Details of the plan.
XXIV. The Commission of Fine Arts -- The London City-planning Conference, 1910. President appoints Mr. Burnham chairman ; Legislative action ; Work of Representative McCall and Senators Root and Wetmore ; Congress and the fine arts ; Debate in the House ; "The Sky-Line Commission" ; Membership ; The Lincoln Memorial ; Meeting with the British town-planners in London ; Speech of Mr. Burnham -- XXV. Closing in, 1911-1912. The last creative work of Mr. Burnham ; Motto for city-planners ; Opening of the Wanamaker stores ; Farewell to Evanston ; An undelivered letter ; The architect of the Lincoln Memorial ; Frank Millet perishes in the Titanic disaster ; A visit to James Ellsworth ; Letter to Arnold Brunner ; Death of Mr. Burnham at Heidelberg ; Burial in Graceland Cemetery, Chicago ; The Lincoln Memorial artists ; Tribute to Frank Millet ; Senator Elihu Root's characterization of the Chicago Fair designers ; Minute of the National Commission of Fine Arts on the death of their chairman -- XXVI. Methods of thought and work. Seeking for the irreducible minimum ; Passion for dominating situations ; Mysticism ; Religious beliefs ; Willis Polk's collection of Burnham aphorisms ; Edward H. Bennett's illustrations of methods -- Appendix A. Proposed improvements at Manila -- Appendix B. Plan of Baguio, Philippine Islands -- Appendix C. Chronological list of buildings designed by Burnham & Root -- Appendix D. Chronological list of buildings designed by D.H. Burnham -- Appendix E. Chronological list of buildings designed by D.H. Burnham & Company -- Appendix F. City plans.
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Subject:

Burnham, Daniel Hudson, 1846-1912.
American Academy in Rome.
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
World's Columbian Exposition
Architecture United States.
City planning.
Art, Municipal Illinois Chicago.
Art, Municipal Washington (D.C.)
Public works Illinois Chicago.
Public works Washington (D.C.)
Public works Philippines.
Architecture États-Unis.
Travaux publics Illinois Chicago.
Travaux publics Washington (D.C.)
Travaux publics Philippines.
Mobilier urbain Illinois Chicago.
Mobilier urbain Washington (D.C.)
Architecture
Art, Municipal
Public works
Illinois Chicago
Philippines
United States
Washington (D.C.)

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collective biographies.
Biographies
Books.
Authors'autographs.
Authors'inscriptions.

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Library of American civilization.

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