lectures, makes television appearances, and has written two books and several articles on North Shore architecture. She is a resident of Highland Park.
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focus on historic preservation. Susan frequently
COHEN
SUSAN BENJAMIN owns a Chicago-area consulting
firm—Benjamin Historic Certifications—with a
STUART COHEN is a practicing architect and a Fellow
of architecture emeritus at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Stuart is the author of two books and numerous articles on architecture. His firm, Cohen and Hacker Architects, specializes in residential architecture and the restoration and renovation of historic houses. He is a resident of Evanston. Susan Benjamin and Stuart Cohen are the coauthors of North Shore Chicago: Houses of the Lakefront Suburbs, 1890–1940 (Acanthus Press, 2004).
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GREAT HOUSES of
CHICAGO 1871–1921
SUSAN BENJAMIN AND STUART COHEN Foreword by Franz Schulze and Arthur H. Miller
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ark, raw power built Chicago into an authentic American city. Beginning in the 1870s,
farmers, hog swains, and gamblers—Europeans, New Englanders, southerners, and nearby midwesterners—migrated to the shores of Lake Michigan. From a world of shanty towns and smokestacked factories, a handful of men ruthlessly built vast commercial and industrial enterprises that changed the way Americans shop, eat, and think. Adventurous, civic-minded, and newly rich, Chicago’s
grandees
boldly
hired
the
most
progressive architects and savviest art and antiques dealers to design and furnish private houses that
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of the American Institute of Architects. He is professor
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ultimately defined the city as a center of American capitalism, culture, and architecture. Along Prairie Avenue, majestic Lake Shore Drive, and Astor Street, the Armours, McCormicks, Pullmans, and Ryersons immortalized their place among Chicago’s elite with lavish palaces. They were designed by the great architects of the era, including Daniel Burnham, Frank Lloyd Wright, Howard Van Doren Shaw, and David Adler, in styles that ranged from Classical and Romanesque to Prairie School and International Modern. Great Houses of Chicago, 1871–1921, is the first authoritative study of Chicago’s city houses. Thirty-four in-depth profiles, illustrated with
Lisa Easton and Kate Lemos
restored archival photographs, drawings, and floor plans, portray a private world of midwestern splendor. This masterful volume includes biographical sketches of leading Chicago architects, a comprehen-
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sive bibliography, and a portfolio of 40 additional, rarely-seen residences.
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Front cover: Joseph T. Ryerson Jr. house Back cover: Francis J. Dewes house