Lost Chicago

David Garrard Lowe

ISBN 10: 0823028712 / ISBN 13: 9780823028719

Published by Watson-Guptill, 2000

May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0823028712I4N00

Synopsis:

An exploration of the architectural and cultural history of one of America's greatest cities, a city whose architectural heritage was recklessly squandered during the second half of the 20th century. There are over 200 photographs and prints illuminating the decades when Gustavus Swift and Philip D. Armour ruled the greatest stockyards in the world; when industrialists and entrepreneurs such as Cyrus McCormick, Potter Palmer, George Pullman and Marshall Field financed construction that made Prairie Avenue and State streets the rivals of New York's Fifth Avenue; when Dankmer Adler, William Le Baron Jenney, Louis Sullivan, John Wellburn Root, Daniel Burnham, Martin Holabird and Frank Lloyd Wright were designing buildings of incomparable excellence. Here are mansions and grand hotels, office buildings and department stores, trains and movie palaces, parks and racetracks.

About the Author: David Garrard Lowe, the author of Stanford White’s New York, Beaux Arts New York, and Art Deco New York (Watson-Guptill, 2001), lectures freqently at the Smithsonian in Washington, the American Adademy in Rome, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in his home city, New York.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Lost Chicago
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket