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    Lost Chicago (Rev and Enlarged)

    Lost Chicago (Rev and Enlarged)


    $29.95

    • Format: Trade Paperback
    • 272 pages
    • Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications
    • Published: October 2000
    • ISBN-10: 0823028712
    • ISBN-13: 9780823028719

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    30th Anniversary
    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 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. These dazzling, poignant pages recreate the magical building 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. 270 illustrations.
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