Daniel Burnham

Daniel Burnham was born in 1846 in New York but came to work in Chicago. He was one of the chief members of the Chicago School of Architecture. This was a group of designers and builders who designed many well-known buildings including some of Chicago's tallest buildings.  In 1909 Burhnam and others worked on a plan to make the city more beautiful than it had been. This plan was called the Burnham Plan. Burnham believed that the Chicago lakefront belionged to all of the people. His plan combined the highways, parks and beautiful shoreline into what we know today as Lake Shore Drive. Daniel Burnham died in 1912.      To visit Daniel Burnham Home Page Click here: http://www.graveyards.com/graceland/burnham.html

Louis Sullivan

Louis Sullivan was born in Boston in 1856. He studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institiute of Technology. He settled in Chicago in 1881 and formed a partnership with Dankmar Adler. Together they designed and produced more than 100 buildings. Sullivan had many early brillant designs for steel-frame skyscraper construction. These designs made the skyscrapers the well-know American building type.  Louis Sullivan is considered the founder of what is know as the Chicago School of Architects- a group of famous architects who helped to create the skyscraper style. Sullivan was also master teacher to another one of Chicago's famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.  One of Sullivan's earliest and most famous building was the Auditioriun Building, a ten-story building now know for producing theatre and other performing arts. The Carson Pirie Scott Department Store, regarded as Sullivan's masterpiece, was completed in 1904. This was probably the last of Sullivan's great works.  Louis Sullivan died in 1924.     To visit Louis Sullivan's Home Page Click here: http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/sullivan.html

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