Lost Chicago

by Lowe, David Garrard

• ISBN13: 9780823028719
• ISBN10: 0823028712
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2005-04-01
• Publisher: Watson-Guptill

Summary

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

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Revised Edition	vi
Preface to the First Edition	vii
The Island	1	(14)
Buildings for a City	6	(9)
Time of the Temple	15	(34)
Residences	22	(27)
Great Houses	22	(21)
Small Houses	43	(2)
Apartments	45	(4)
The Rails Reach Out	49	(16)
The Age of the Iron Horse	53	(12)
The Stations	54	(3)
The Trains	57	(3)
The Kingdom of Pullman	60	(5)
Queen of the Lakes	65	(22)
The Living City	73	(14)
Bunting and Arches	73	(2)
Places of Worship	75	(3)
Pleasures of Parks	78	(2)
Streets for People	80	(7)
The Great Fire	87	(8)
A City in Ruins	88	(7)
A Phoenix Rising	95	(24)
Grand Hotels	107	(12)
An Architecture for a Democracy	119	(30)
American Metropolis	128	(21)
Monuments of Commerce	129	(4)
The Auditorium	133	(5)
The Stock Exchange	138	(3)
Skyscrapers	141	(8)
Dreams of Empire	149	(30)
The Fairs	158	(21)
The Columbian Exposition---1893	158	(13)
A Century of Progress---1933	171	(8)
Where Is Athens Now?	179	(32)
Places of Entertainment	188	(23)
Theaters	189	(7)
Dining and Dancing	196	(8)
Movie Palaces	204	(7)
Bad Times, Good Times	211	(34)
Special Places	222	(23)
Commercial Grace	222	(13)
Private Clubs	235	(1)
City of Stadiums	235	(10)
Coda	245	(7)
Sources for Illustrations	252	(2)
Index	254