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Lost Chicago
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by David Garrard Lowe
Sales Rank : 333315
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Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Watson-Guptill; Revised edition October 1, 2000
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0823028712
ISBN-13: 978-0823028719
Product Dimensions:
11.4 x 8.7 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
Product Description
These dazzling, poignant pages recreate the magical built environment that thrilled generations of Chicago residents and visitors alike before falling victim to the wrecking ball of "progress." Here are the grand residences and hotels, opulent theaters, legendary trains, and state-of-the-art office buildings and department stores-including the world's first skyscraper. Here too are the famous convention halls, parks, and racetracks of a great American city whose architectural treasures have been, and continue to be, recklessly squandered. Rare photographs and prints, many of them published here for the first time, document the transformative architectural achievements of such giants as Dankmar Adler, Louis Sullivan, John Wellburn Root, Daniel Burnham, William Holabird, and Frank Lloyd Wright. But this remarkable book is much more than a portfolio of now-vanished buildings; within its pages are evocative thumbnail sketches of scores of Chicago personalities, from the world-famous (Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Dreiser, Clarence Darrow, Ben Hecht, Jane Addams, Cyrus McCormick, George Pullman, and Gustavus Swift, to name just a few) to the locally notorious.
About The Author
David Garrard Lowe, the author of Stanford White's New York, Beaux Arts New York, and Art Deco New York (to be published by Watson-Guptill in 2001), lectures frequently at the Smithsonian in Washington, the American Academy in Rome, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in his home city, New York.
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