Lost Chicago
Edition: Rev. and E edition
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Published: October 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780823028719
Subjects: American history; Architectural structure & design; Local history; Photoessays & Documentaries; History; Documentary Photo Collections; Urban Architecture; U.S. Architecture - General; Photography; Architecture; Photo Essays; History - General; United States - State & Local - General; Travel / United States / Midwest / East North Central (IL, IN, MI, OH, WI); History of Architecture; Art, Architecture & Photography; 20th Century Architecture; Modern architecture; Chicago; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions; Buildings, structures, etc; Chicago (Ill.); Illinois; Lost architecture
First sentence: IN THE BEGINNING there was only the great lake on the east and, to the west, the billowing sea of grass.
Description: "Lost Chicago explores the architectural and cultural history of one of America's greatest cities, a city whose architectural heritage was recklessly squandered during the second half of the 20th century. David Garrard Lowe's prose and over 270 rare photographs and prints, many of them published here for the first time, illuminate the decades when Gustavus Swift and Philip D.

Armour ruled the greatest stockyards in the world; when industrialists and entrepreneurs such as Cyrus McCormick, Porter Palmer, George Pullman, and Marshall Field made Prairie Avenue and State streets the rivals of New York City's Fifth Avenue; when Dankmar Adler, William Le Baron Jenney, Louis Sullivan, John Wellborn Root, Daniel Burnham, Martin Holabird, and Frank Lloyd Wright were designing buildings of incomparable excellence.

Here are the mansions and grand hotels, technically brilliant office buildings (including the first skyscraper) and department stores, magnificent trains, and movie palaces, parks, and racetracks that thrilled residents and tourists alike before falling victim to the wrecking ball of "progress.""--BOOK JACKET.