An edition of Lost Chicago (1975)

Lost Chicago

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list


Buy this book

Last edited by Preservation Chicago
November 26, 2024 | History
An edition of Lost Chicago (1975)

Lost Chicago

These dazzling, poignant pages recreate the magical built environment that thrilled generations of Chicago residents and visitors alike before falling victim to the wrecking ball of "progress." Here are the grand residences and hotels, opulent theaters, legendary trains, and state-of-the-art office buildings and department stores-including the world's first skyscraper. Here too are the famous convention halls, parks, and racetracks of a great American city whose architectural treasures have been, and continue to be, recklessly squandered. Rare photographs and prints, many of them published here for the first time, document the transformative architectural achievements of such giants as Dankmar Adler, Louis Sullivan, John Wellburn Root, Daniel Burnham, William Holabird, and Frank Lloyd Wright. But this remarkable book is much more than a portfolio of now-vanished buildings; within its pages are evocative thumbnail sketches of scores of Chicago personalities, from the world-famous (Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Dreiser, Clarence Darrow, Ben Hecht, Jane Addams, Cyrus McCormick, George Pullman, and Gustavus Swift, to name just a few) to the locally notorious.

Publish Date
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Language
English
Pages
241

Buy this book

Previews available in: English

Edition Availability
Cover of: Lost Chicago
Lost Chicago
1985, American Legacy Press, Distributed by Crown Publishers
in English
Cover of: Lost Chicago
Lost Chicago
1975, Houghton Mifflin
in English

Add another edition?

Book Details


Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Boston

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
720/.9/77311
Library of Congress
NA735.C4 L68, NA735.C4L68

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 241 p. :
Number of pages
241

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL5196886M
Internet Archive
lostchicago0000lowe_a6n9
ISBN 10
0395207266
LCCN
75019181
OCLC/WorldCat
1504943
LibraryThing
117479
Goodreads
4723701

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL1808258W

Community Reviews (0)

No community reviews have been submitted for this work.

Lists

History

Download catalog record: RDF / JSON
November 26, 2024 Edited by Preservation Chicago Edited without comment.
February 28, 2022 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
June 22, 2021 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
February 1, 2010 Edited by WorkBot add more information to works
December 9, 2009 Created by WorkBot add works page