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Henry Ives Cobb's Chicago : architecture, institutions, and the making of a modern metropolis / Edward W. Wolner.

By: Series: Chicago architecture and urbanismPublication details: Chicago, ILL ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011.Description: x, 384 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 9780226905617 (hbk.)
  • 0226905616 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720.92 WOL 2011
Contents:
Part I. A Proper Bostonian's Chicago -- The Union Club, self-made men, and Chicago's first period of growth -- Three mansions, four self-makers, and Chicago's metropolitan expansion -- The Chicago Opera House and the Owings Building: Skyscrapers and rationalized work I -- Cultural politics and the Newberry Library's compartmentalization of knowledge -- Part II. Cultural institutions and metropolitan maturity -- Cobb's varieties of the Romanesque -- Skyscrapers and rationalized Work II -- Self-made men, civic culture, and the University of Chicago (1889-1893) -- Science, self-makers, and the University's Second Building Campaign (1893-1897) -- Public square and the Federal Building: Design, civic discourse, and rationalized government -- Falls from grace --Chicago in New York.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 367- 373) and index.

Part I. A Proper Bostonian's Chicago -- The Union Club, self-made men, and Chicago's first period of growth -- Three mansions, four self-makers, and Chicago's metropolitan expansion -- The Chicago Opera House and the Owings Building: Skyscrapers and rationalized work I -- Cultural politics and the Newberry Library's compartmentalization of knowledge -- Part II. Cultural institutions and metropolitan maturity -- Cobb's varieties of the Romanesque -- Skyscrapers and rationalized Work II -- Self-made men, civic culture, and the University of Chicago (1889-1893) -- Science, self-makers, and the University's Second Building Campaign (1893-1897) -- Public square and the Federal Building: Design, civic discourse, and rationalized government -- Falls from grace --Chicago in New York.