page_title: William Le Baron Jenney
section_title: Projects
hierarchical_section_title: William Le Baron Jenney / Projects
caption_attribution_description: Horticultural Building, from Wooded Island. Large photographic print from The White City (As It Was), photographs by William Henry Jackson. World's Columbian Exposition 1893. Digitial Identifier: GN90799d_JWH_071w World's Columbian Exposition Collection at The Field Museum
context_page_description: William LeBaron Jenney was an American architect and engineer who is known for building the first skyscraper in 1884 and became known as the Father of the American skyscraper.
  In 1998, Jenney was ranked number 89 in the book 1,000 Years, 1,000 People: Ranking the Men and Women Who Shaped the Millennium.
context_section_description: 19 South LaSalle Street, 1893, downtown Chicago
  Col James H. Bowen House, Hyde Park, Chicago, built in 1869
  Metropolitan Block, 770 Main St, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, built in 1874, NRHP-listed
  First Congregational Church (Manistee, Michigan), built in 1892 or 1888
  Home Insurance Building, Chicago, built in 1884
  Horticultural Building, for the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, built in 1893
  Lake Forest Cemetery, Lake Forest, Illinois
  Ludington Building, Chicago, built in 1891, National Historic Landmark
  L.Y. Schermerhorn Residence, 124 Scottswood Road, Riverside, Illinois, built in 1869
  Manhattan Building, Chicago, built in 1891, National Historic Landmark
  New York Life Insurance Building, Chicago, built in 1894
  Second Leiter Building, Chicago, built in 1889
  West Park District section of Chicago's boulevard system
  DKE Shant, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1878
  Part or all of Garfield Park, 100 N. Central Park Ave., Chicago, NRHP-listed
  Part or all of Humboldt Park, roughly bounded by N. Sacramento and Augusta Blvds., and N. Kedzie, North and N. California Aves. and W. Division St., Chicago, NRHP-listed
caption: Horticultural Building at World's Columbian Exposition
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