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  Station Information - Daniel Burnham
Daniel Hudson Burnham (September 4, 1846 - June 1, 1912) was the co-author of the Chicago Plan, which laid out plans for the future of Chicago in 1909.
Burnham had also served as the chief architect for the World Columbian Exposition, basing the "White City" on gargantuan Greco-Roman architecture.
Burnham was also commissioned by the U.S. Philippine Commission in 1904 to make plans for the then Colonial cities of Baguio and Manila.
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 Daniel Burnham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Daniel Hudson Burnham (September 4, 1846 - June 1, 1912) was an American architect and urban planner.
Burnham was born in Henderson, New York and raised in Chicago, Illinois.
Burnham's personal and professional papers are held in the Ryerson and Burnham Archives at The Art Institute of Chicago.
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 Daniel Burnham
Daniel Hudson Burnham (September 4, 1846 - June 1, 1912) was one of the Chicago architects responsible for the earliest development of the American skyscraper.
Burnham served as the chief coordinating architect for the World Columbian Exposition, of 1893, laying out the gargantuan "White City's" classical architecture in a monumental and rational Beaux-Arts plan.
Burnham designed the Flatiron Building in New York (1902), and the fully Beaux-Arts Union Station (Washington, DC), the linchpin that made development of the monumental Mall possibly, by removing the Pennsylvania Railroad's right-of-way along it.
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 Daniel Burnham - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Daniel Hudson Burnham (September 4, 1846 - June 1, 1912) was born in Henderson, New York and raised in Chicago, Illinois.
Burnham and Root had accepted responsibility as chief of construction for the World Columbian Exposition on Chicago’s south lakefront.
Louis Sullivan, considered by many to be the greatest architect from the Chicago School, chastised Burnham for his lack of original expression and dependence on Classicism.
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 Daniel Hudson Burnham - Historic Architect
Daniel H. Burnham was one of the earliest modern city planners and, with his partner, John Wellborn Root, the architect of the first American skyscrapers.
At his death in 1912, Daniel Burnham's company was the world's largest architectural firm and had become the model for countless later firms that utilized global business techniques instead of the traditional, near Medieval methods of earlier architects.
Burnham's sons donated most of the records and drawings of their father to the Art Institute of Chicago, establishing the Burnham Library as one of the preeminent collections of architectural information in the world.
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 The Devil In The White City by Erik Larson
Daniel H. Burnham was born in Henderson, New York, on September 4, 1846.
Burnham was a lackluster student whose only talent seemed to be drawing; he sketched constantly, both in class and outside it, but his grades in school remained dismal.
The combination of Root's innovative flair and Burnham's genius for the business side of things led their firm into prosperity, allowing them to take on ever more challenging and daring projects in what would come to be known as the heyday of architectural invention.
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 Daniel Hudson Burnham Biography / Biography of Daniel Hudson Burnham Biography Biography
Daniel H. Burnham was born in Henderson, N.Y. In 1868 he worked for the architect William Le Baron Jenney in Chicago and then for Carter, Drake and Wight, where he met John Welborn Root.
Burnham and Root were to have been the coordinators of the World's Columbian Exposition to be held in 1893 in Chicago, but on the day of the first planning conference Root contracted pneumonia, and died.
In 1891 Burnham established the firm of D. Burnham, which was replaced in 1896 by D. Burnham and Co. In 1894 he became president of the American Institute of Architects.
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 Burnham, Daniel Hudson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Burnham gained fame as the chief of construction for the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893.
Burnham's "White City" influenced a great many architects to favor the neoclassical style over the next few decades, in spite of Sullivan's claims that architecture in America had been set back years.
Burnham and his family are buried under natural glacial granite boulders on a small island near the northern end of Lake Willomere.
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 Daniel Burnham -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Daniel Hudson Burnham (September 4, 1846 - June 1, 1912) was born in (Click link for more info and facts about Henderson, New York) Henderson, New York and raised in (Click link for more info and facts about Chicago, Illinois) Chicago, Illinois.
Burnham and Root had accepted responsibility to oversee construction of the (Click link for more info and facts about World Columbian Exposition) World Columbian Exposition in (Largest city in Illinois; a bustling Great Lakes port that extends 26 miles along the southwestern shoreline of Lake Michigan) Chicago’s then-desolate Jackson Park on the south lakefront.
Almost as a tribute to his urban planning ethos, Burnham's final resting spot is given special attention, being located on the only island in (A residential part of town away from the central commercial district) Uptown's park like (Click link for more info and facts about Graceland Cemetery) Graceland Cemetery.
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 Big Plans, Divine Details:
More than this however, for those who participate knowingly the ritual is a kind of shorthand notation--or, to change the metaphor, a common doorway to storehouses of memories and hopes both shared and personal, that in their plenitude confirm both the validity of the ritual form and the truths that it represents.
And yet, no one has ever suggested that Daniel Burnham and the supporters of his Plan were either antagonistic to the advance of commerce (the Burnham Plan, after all, was sponsored by the Commercial Club of Chicago), or that they were anything less than thorough pragmatists.
Daniel Burnham is not God, but in the history of Chicago architecture and urbanism he is unquestionably an Authority Figure.
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 AllRefer.com - Daniel Hudson Burnham (Architecture, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Daniel Hudson Burnham[bUr´num] Pronunciation Key, 1846–1912, American architect and city planner b.
Burnham and Root also designed the general plan for Chicago's World's Columbian Exposition (1893) and through it exerted an enormous influence upon contemporaneous civic design.
In 1901, Burnham served with C. McKim, F. Olmsted, Jr., and Augustus Saint-Gaudens on the Senate Park Commission in planning for the future beautification of Washington, D.C. With E. Bennett he created a civic improvement plan of great importance for Chicago (1907), much of which has since been put into execution.
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 New Raytheon leader 'a perfect fit'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Daniel P. Burnham, 51, of Michigan, will begin work as president and chief operating officer on July 1 after wrapping up at Allied Signal Corp. where he served as one of two vice chairmen.
Burnham is an ''excellent choice'' because of his broad experience handling both the defense and commercial applications of aerospace technology.
Burnham is a ''perfect fit'' for Raytheon's three goals: to become a leader in defense electronics and commercial applications of defense technology and to expand the commercial uses of defense technology.
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 Daniel H. Burnham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Burnham was nine years old when he moved to Chicago with his family in 1855.
Daniel began his Chicago Schooling at Snow's Swedenborgian Academy and in his early adolescence, attended the Jones and Dearborn public schools.
In 1867 Burnham became a salesman at a mercantile house in Chicago.
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 Historical Profile
Burnham believed that the economic productivity of the urban population was dependant on keeping them happy and healthy.* As a result, a spectacular bike path, beaches, harbors, parks, and museums are all centered in the heart of downtown Chicago.
Burnham gave Chicagoans a town that is beautiful, full of outdoor leisure opportunities and rich in diverse and educational museums.
This is not Daniel Burnham's only achievement or even his greatest, only the one which has had the greatest impact on my life.
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 Daniel J Burnham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Burnham has a comprehensive intellectual property practice that encompasses a diverse range of sophisticated technologies and legal issues.
Burnham also handles intellectual property due diligence evaluations and licensing matters for clients, and has acted as lead counsel and patent counsel on numerous litigation matters.
Burnham has a strong international focus in his practice and regularly interfaces with foreign counsel in developing worldwide intellectual property protection for his clients.
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 Stay in Oak Park - Daniel Burnham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
One of the architects who figured prominently in the rebuilding of Chicago after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 was Daniel Burnham whose Plan for Chicago in 1909 was the first comprehensive plan outline of development ever offered to an American City.
Both were built by Daniel Burnham and John Root and both were remodeled by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Daniel Burnham was also the architect for Selfridges Department Store - Oxford Street London W1 UK.
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 Chicago Architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Following Root's death in 1891, the firm became known as D.H. Burnham and Co. Its design output continued to be prodigious, including department stores (Marshall Field's), office buildings (People's Gas and the Railway Exchange, at 122 and 224 S. Michigan, respectively), and public buildings (e.g., park fieldhouses, railroad stations, city halls) all across the country.
He supervised the laying out and construction of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and, in 1909, Burnham and his assistant Edward H. Bennett (Michigan Avenue Bridge) prepared The Plan for Chicago, which is considered the nation's first example of a comprehensive planning document.
Burnham Park, which is located along Lake Michigan south of the Loop, is named in honor of the famed architect-planner.
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 Re: (rshsdepot) Daniel Burnham
Burnham, Daniel Hudson 1846-1912 Architect and City Planner Born in Henderson, New York 09/04/1846, and relocated to Chicago, Ill. in 1856 where he was educated and went on to receive several degrees, however his chief architectural foundation was laid as he apprented with William Le Baron Jenney.
Burnham is buried under natural glacial granite boulders on a small island near the northern end of Lake Willomere, Ill., reachable via a permanent footbridge.
Burnham is the architect of the station in Washington, DC., the > Flatiron Building, and did the city planning for the city of Chicago.
www.railfan.net /lists/rshsdepot-digest/200206/msg00052.html   (460 words)

  
 Daniel Burnham Architecture, Art review by Alan Artner
Still, Burnham is a legendary figure, and legends are engrossing to explore, particularly through seldom seen material like that assembled by the Architech Gallery.
One of the premises of the show is that the effect of Burnham on the city continued long after his death in 1912, so works are shown from his firm almost to the end of the '20s.
Thus a case is built to suggest that Burnham's chief architectural contributions were in the areas of scale and a refined backward-looking European taste.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Daniel Burnham
Burnham, Daniel H(udson) (1846-1912), American architect and urban planner, born in Henderson, New York.
Root, John Wellborn (1850-1891), late 19th-century American architect and designer who was a partner of architect Daniel H. Burnham.
Burnham, (Linden) Forbes Sampson (1923-85), prime minister (1964-80) and president (1980-85) of Guyana.
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 Daniel Burnham - Definition up Erdmond.Com
He got some early experience in a short stint as a draftsman in the office of William_Le_Baron_Jenney, the so-called "father of the skyscraper." Burnham served as the chief coordinating architect for the World_Columbian_Exposition, of 1893, laying out the gargantuan "White City's" classical architecture in a monumental and rational Beaux-Arts plan.
Burnham designed the Flatiron_Building in New York (1902), and the fully Beaux-Arts Union Station (Washington, DC), the linchpin that made development of the monumental Mall possibly, by removing the Pennsylvania_Railroad's right-of-way along it.
Burnham died on June_1, 1912 in Heidelberg, Germany.
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 Architect Daniel H. Burnham Was Born
Burnham and Root pioneered the construction methods that made modern skyscrapers possible.
After Root died, Burnham took over Root's job as chief architect of Chicago's 1893 World's Colombian Exposition, a kind of world's fair He created a temporary city with grand boulevards, lush gardens, and classical building exteriors.
Burnham, along with architect Edward Bennett, also developed plans for a real city.
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 Daniel Burnham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Daniel Burnham was one of the leading architects of the later 19th century.
In 1890, Burnham was chosen to oversee the 1893 Colombian Exhibition.
Burnham was also a major force in the growing City Beautiful movement.
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