Daniel Burnham: Holiday Heft


[Rookery Building (1885) Burnham & Root, architects /Image & Artwork: designslinger]

Burnham had initiative, strength of will, and a certain splendor of enthusiasm which captured men and held them...

 - Harriet Monroe


[Marshall Field & Co. (1892) D.H. Burnham & Co., architects /Image & Artwork: designslinger]

He had a feeling for all those elements which tend to lift a structure out of the category of mere profit yielders,


[Railway Exchange Building (1904) D.H. Burnham & Co., architects /Image & Artwork: designslinger]

and make it an ornament to a city.

 - Charles Moore
Posted by designslinger at 12/29/2010 4:47 AM
Categories: Architecture, Ephemera, Architects
Tags: Daniel Burnham DH Burnham Co commercial architecture
 

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