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Born September 25, 1832 • Fairhaven • Massachusetts
Died June 15, 1907 (aged 74) • Los Angeles • California
Movement / Style Chicago School
Subjects Of Study architecture

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Home Insurance Company Building, Chicago, designed by Jenney, 1884–85
Home Insurance Company Building
Jenney, William Le Baron: Manhattan Building
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Bruce Graham
American architect
Daniel H. Burnham.
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American architect
Holabird, William; Roche, Martin; Marquette Building
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lobby of the Rookery
John Wellborn Root
American architect
Chicago Stock Exchange designed by Dankmar Adler, 1897, demolished 1972
Dankmar Adler
American architect
Louis Sullivan
Louis Sullivan
American architect
Bertrand Goldberg
American architect
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
American architect
Philip Johnson: AT&T Building
Philip Johnson
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Gordon Bunshaft, c. 1950s.
Gordon Bunshaft
American architect
Wallace Harrison, 1966
Wallace K. Harrison
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Nervi
Pier Luigi Nervi
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright
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Walter Netsch
Walter Netsch
American architect
I.M. Pei
I.M. Pei
American architect
H.H. Richardson
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Newberry Library
Henry Ives Cobb
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Fazlur Khan in the late 1970s
Fazlur Khan
American engineer
Tigerman, Stanley
Stanley Tigerman
American architect
Hunt, Richard Morris
Richard Morris Hunt
American architect

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