[D.H. Burnham & Company, Architects]. Specifications for the Butler Building at Chicago, Illinois. Incl. a ‘Memorandum Tabulating Preliminary Bids on Butler Brothers Main Building’, ‘Addenda Specifications’ and ‘Addenda to the Addenda to the Glass and Glazing Specifications’ et al. Chicago, [Printed and Bound by D.H. Burnham & Company, Architects, Railway Exchange Building], 1912. 27 x 21 cm. Title, Index Page, 329 pages [Specifications], 32 unnumbered tabulated typed pages [Preliminary Bids], 75 pages [Addenda Specifications], 11 pages [Addenda to Addenda – marked ‘Owner’s Copy]. Original brown cloth with black title on front board. Very good condition. Sound binding, but a little rubbed and bumped. Edges and end papers age darkened. Some pages thumbed. Some age darkening and mild staining throughout. A few handwritten notes and underlinings, tick-marks etc. Still a very nice copy of an original specification document issued in 1912. Names of two previous owners/ users on front free end paper (A. McGill / N.W. Diehl).

D.H. Burnham and Company was an architecture firm based in Chicago, Illinois. As successor to Burnham and Root, the name was changed once John Root died in 1891. Root was the chief consulting architect for the World’s Columbian Exposition. After Root’s death, Daniel Burnham took that title along with his old title of Chief of Construction. D.H. Burnham and Company continued to have design output that was prodigious. Works include the Ellicott Square Building in Buffalo, New York, overseeing the reconstruction and expansion of the Marshall Field and Company Building in Chicago between 1893 and 1914, designing and building The Silversmith Building, now The Silversmith Hotel & Suites in downtown Chicago in the late 1890s, Pennsylvania Station in Pittsburgh (1903), Union Depot in El Paso (1906), Union Station in Washington, D.C. (1907), and the Commercial National Bank Building in Chicago (1907). In 1894 Burnham was the President of the American Institute of Architects and was asked to draw up plans for cities such as San Francisco, Cleveland, and Baltimore.
Butler Brothers Main Building most likely refers to ‘Butler Brothers Warehouse II’, a neo-classical building formerly at West Bank Chicago River, between Washington and Randolph. Construction of this building finished in 1913, however, the 18 storey high rise building lasted only seven years; it was demolished in 1920 to make way for railroad tracks leading north from Union Station. The design was nearly identical to the Butler Brothers Warehouse I (now River Center) which was built the same year directly to the west, and also to the Randolph Place Lofts, which was built after this one was demolished. The Boeing World Headquarters currently occupies this site. (Internet Sources).

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• Language: English
• First edition
• Inventory Number: 102389AB

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