The Rookery
Subtitle: A Building Book from the Chicago Architecture Foundation (Pomegranate Catalog, No. A660)
Contributors: Chicago Architecture Foundation (Collaborator); Hedrich Blessing (Photographer)
Publisher: Pomegranate Communications
Published: January 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780764923067
Subjects: Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc; Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings; Buildings, structures, etc; Architecture; Illinois; Rookery Building (Chicago, Ill; Burnham and Root; Chicago (Ill.); Rookery Building (Chicago, Ill.)
First sentence: In the early 1900s, novelist Theodore Dreiser compared Chicago, where he set his gritty novels, to the Florence of Michelangelo and the Medici.