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Chicago Skyscrapers 1871–1934 Thomas Leslie Chicago Skyscrapers 1871–1934 Chicago Skyscrapers 1871–1934 Thomas Leslie University of Illinois Press Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield Frontispiece: Panorama of the Loop from the roof of the Insurance Exchange, ca. 1913. (120 Photographic Views of Chicago, Rand McNally, 1915) © 2013 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America C 5 4 3 2 1 ∞ This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Leslie, Thomas, 1967– Chicago skyscrapers, 1871–1934 / Thomas Leslie. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-252-03754-2 (cloth: alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-252-09479-8 (e-book) 1. Skyscrapers—Illinois—Chicago—History. 2. Chicago (Ill.)—Buildings, structures, etc. I. Title. NA6232.L47 2013 720’.4830977311—dc22 2012040478 To my parents, who first showed me Chicago. The laws of nature are exact, and the laws of nature have a good deal to say about what Chicago shall be. —Chicago Daily Tribune, July 7, 1889 [T]he architect is not only an artist, but also an engineer, a man of science and a man of affairs. In these latter capacities, the architect of to-day has at his command instrumentalities and opportunities unknown to his predecessor. . . . [T]he architect is of the world as well as in it. —Dankmar Adler, 1896 Contents xi Preface xxiii Acknowledgments 1 Chapter 1. October 1871 15 Chapter 2. “Built Mostly of Itself”: Chicago and Clay, 1874–1891 35 Chapter 3. Iron and Light: The “Great Architectural Problem” and the Skeleton Frame, 1879–1892 61 Chapter 4. Steel and Wind: The Braced Frame, 1890–1897 78 Chapter 5. Glass and Light: “Veneers” and Curtain Walls, 1889–1904 100 Chapter 6. Steel, Clay, and Glass: The Expressed Frame, 1897–1910 125 Chapter 7. Steel, Light, and Style: The Concealed Frame, 1905–1918 144 Chapter 8. Power and Height: The Electric Skyscraper, 1920–1934 173 Chapter 9. Chicago, 1934 185 Appendix 193 Notes 209 Bibliography 221 Index
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