North Shore Chicago: Houses of the Lakefront Suburbs, 1890-1940 (Suburban Domestic Architecture Series) - Hardcover

Stuart Earl Cohen; Susan Benjamin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0926494260 ISBN 13: 9780926494268

Publisher: Acanthus Pr Llc, 2004

Synopsis

Illustrated with over 350 duotone photographs and floor plans, many published here for the first time, North Shore Chicago recounts the stories of Chicago s great industrial and merchant families including the Armours, Donnelleys, and McCormics and their creative interaction with both the region s leading architects David Adler, Daniel Burnham, Howard Van Doren Shaw, and Frank Lloyd Wright and their national counterparts Delano & Aldrich, Harrie Lindeberg, and Charles Platt. Their collaboration produced some of the finest examples of American residential architecture

About this title

About the Author:

Stuart Cohen is a practicing architect and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. He is Professor of Architecture Emeritus at the University of Illinois, Chicago and the author of numerous articles on architecture. His previous book "Chicago Architects" (1976) was described by Ada Luise Huxtable in the New York Times as "revisionist history...and an exercise in provocative scholarship". He is a resident of Evanston.

Susan Benjamin owns a Chicago-area consulting firm -Benjamin Historic Certifications - with a focus on historic preservation. She frequently lectures , makes television appearances, and has written two books and several articles on North Shore architecture. She is a resident of Highland Park.

Review:

Hundreds of period photographs capture the allure of nine towns that blossomed as a refuge from the city. --The Chicago Tribune

The authors take readers on a virtual tour of each structure, the literary equivalent of an open house, pointing out the significant architectural features and providing insight into the lives of the architects and homeowners behind the stunning edifices --North Shore Magazine

About this edition

• Publisher: Acanthus Pr Llc
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0926494260
• ISBN 13: 9780926494268
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336