Research Catalog

Title

They built Chicago : entrepreneurs who shaped a great city's architecture / Miles L. Berger.

Author

Berger, Miles L.

Publication

Chicago : Bonus Books, c1992.

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Details

Description

xxxii, 459 p. : ill. (some col.); 29 cm.

Subject

• 1800-1999
• Architecture > Illinois > Chicago > 19th century
• Architecture > Illinois > Chicago > 20th century
• Architecture > Illinois > Chicago > 20e siècle
• Architecture > Illinois > Chicago > 19e siècle
• Architecture
• Bauinvestition
• Bauunternehmer
• Buildings
• Immobilienmanagement
• Hochhaus
• Chicago (Ill.) > Buildings, structures, etc
• Chicago (Ill.) > History
• Chicago (Ill.) > Histoire
• Chicago, Ill
• Illinois > Chicago

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 421-430) and index.

Contents

Setting the stage: 1830-79 -- Bold visions: Potter Palmer -- Hyde Park: Paul Cornell -- Golden age of development: 1880-99 -- First skyscraper: Peter C. Brooks -- Office towers: Owen F. Aldis -- Man of principle: William E. Hale -- the inside track: Edward C. Waller -- Company town: George M. Pullman -- Land baron: Marshall Field -- Vault companies: Wilson K. Nixon -- The Auditorium: Ferdinand W. Peck -- South Dearborn: Charles C. Heisen -- Workingmen's homes: Samuel E. Gross -- A model suburb: J. Lewis Cochran -- Waller's lots: Robert A. Waller -- City for the twentieth century: 1900-29 -- Titan of State Street: Otto Young -- Chicago's innkeepers: Tracy C. Drake, John B. Drake -- Mansions in the sky: Benjamin H. Marshall -- Battling Bubbly Creek: Wallace G. Clark -- Upper Michigan Avenue: Murray Wolbach -- Unrepentant swindler: William C. Bannerman -- Chicago resurgent: 1945-92 -- Urban renewal: Fred Kramer -- New towns: Philip M. Klutznick -- Glass and steel: Herbert Greenwald -- Renaissance man: Bernard Weissbourd -- Lakefront towers: John J. Mack, Raymond Sher -- Mr. Real Estate: Arthur Rubloff -- All in the family: John W. Baird -- Builder as developer: Albert A. Robin -- Designs for living: Daniel Levin -- Business and industrial parks: Frederick Henry Prince, Marshall Bennett, Louis Kahnweiller -- Imagination plus: Eugene Golub, Marvin Romanek -- Doing it right: Charles H. Shaw -- New breed: John A. Buck -- Scaling the heights: Lee Miglin, J. Paul Beitler -- Ogden's legacy: Chicago Dock and Canal Trust -- Teamwork: Robert Wislow -- High tech, old ways: Richard A. Stein.

ISBN

0929387767

LCCN

91077990

OCLC

• 26659459
• ocm26659459
• SCSB-9396064

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library