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Harriet Monroe’s History of the World’s Fair (Part 5)
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Harriet Monroe’s History of the World’s Fair (Part 5)

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Harriet Monroe’s History of the World’s Fair (Part 5)

[Previous installments of this series include Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.] This fifth part of Harriet Monroe’s “The World's Columbian Exposition” from John Wellborn Root: A Study of His Life and Work (Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1896) describes how John Root in late 1890 assembled the “best fruit” of American architecture to design the buildings of the 1893 World’s Fair. Part 5: Expect to be Judged by the World Root looked upon the Columbian Exposition [...]

By Scott|2018-09-02T18:35:30-05:00January 17th, 2018|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: George Post, Grounds and Buildings Committee, Harriet Monroe, Harriet Monroe’s History of the World’s Fair, Jackson Park, John Root, McKim Mead and White, Peabody & Stearns, Richard Hunt, Van Brunt & Howe|0 Comments

Harriet Monroe’s History of the World’s Fair (Part 4)
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Harriet Monroe’s History of the World’s Fair (Part 4)

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Harriet Monroe’s History of the World’s Fair (Part 4)

[Previous installments of this series include Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.] "John Root made the Fair until he died," asserted Owen F. Aldis. We present this fourth part of Harriet Monroe’s “The World's Columbian Exposition” from John Wellborn Root: A Study of His Life and Work (Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1896) on the anniversary of John Root’s death, on January 15, 1891. In this section, Monroe describes the continuing chaos and “hot war” in the fall of [...]

By Scott|2018-03-11T14:45:27-05:00January 15th, 2018|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Charles Hutchinson, Frederick Law Olmsted, Harlow Higinbotham, Harriet Monroe, Harriet Monroe’s History of the World’s Fair, Henry Codman, Jackson Park, John Root, Lake Front Park, Owen F. Aldis, South Park Board, Washington Park|0 Comments

Harriet Monroe’s History of the World’s Fair (Part 3)
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Harriet Monroe’s History of the World’s Fair (Part 3)

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Harriet Monroe’s History of the World’s Fair (Part 3)

[Previous installments of this series include Part 1 and Part 2] Today marks the 125th anniversary of the passing of Henry Sargent Codman, who died unexpectedly while recovering from an appendectomy on January 13, 1893, at the young age of 29. As Frederick Law Olmsted's protégé, Codman influenced the design of the Columbian Exposition fairgrounds in substantial and creative ways, as described in this third part of Harriet Monroe’s “The World's Columbian Exposition” from John Wellborn Root: A Study [...]

By Scott|2018-03-11T14:45:39-05:00January 13th, 2018|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Frederick Law Olmsted, Harriet Monroe, Harriet Monroe’s History of the World’s Fair, Henry Codman, Jackson Park, John Root, Lake Front Park, shirt plan, Washington Park|0 Comments

Is Chicago about to ruin Jackson Park? asks the Cultural Landscape Foundation
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Is Chicago about to ruin Jackson Park? asks the Cultural Landscape Foundation

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Is Chicago about to ruin Jackson Park? asks the Cultural Landscape Foundation

"Is Chicago about to ruin Jackson Park?" asks Charles A. Birnbaum, President & CEO of the Cultural Landscape Foundation in an opinion piece published this week in The Huffington Post. Birnbaum highlights several major projects affecting the park that in 1893 was home to the Columbian Exposition. Plans for the Obama Presidential Center (OPC) locate it on the west side of Jackson Park lagoon (approximately where the Woman's Building and Horticultural Building once stood), and an associated parking facility will sit on [...]

By Scott|2018-01-04T19:37:01-06:00January 4th, 2018|Categories: NEWS|Tags: Calvert Vaux, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jackson Park, map, Midway Plaisance, Obama Presidential Center, Washington Park|1 Comment

Remembering George R. Davis, Director-General of the Fair
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Remembering George R. Davis, Director-General of the Fair

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Remembering George R. Davis, Director-General of the Fair

On November 25, 1899, George R. Davis died in Chicago. He served as the Director-General of the 1893 World’s Fair. This short biographic sketch of Davis appears in "My Country, Tis of Thee !" or, the United States of America; Past, Present and Future by Willis Fletcher Johnson and John Habberton, (John Y. Huber Company, 1892): A portrait of George R. Davis from Picturesque World's Fair (W. B. Conkey, 1894) The Director-General of the Exhibition, its chief [...]

By Scott|2018-07-07T12:13:41-05:00November 25th, 2017|Categories: HISTORY|Tags: Agricultural Building, construction, George R. Davis, Jackson Park, lagoon, Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building|2 Comments