Wolner, Edward W. <br/><br/>
Henry Ives Cobb's Chicago :  architecture, institutions, and the making of a modern metropolis / 
Edward W. Wolner. 
 - Chicago, ILL ;  London :  University of Chicago Press,  2011. 
 - x, 384 p. :  ill., maps ;  29 cm. 
 - Chicago architecture and urbanism .
 - Chicago architecture and urbanism. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 367- 373) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780226905617 (hbk.) 0226905616 (hbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Cobb, Henry Ives, 1859-1931. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>University of Chicago--Buildings.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Architecture--Illinois--Chicago.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>720.92  / WOL 2011