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By the time he died in 1912, Daniel H. Burnham was one of the most famous architects in America as well as an internationally renowned city planner. A contemporary of Louis Sullivan and his student, Frank Lloyd Wright, Burnham has often been characterized as a betrayer of the Chicago school of... read more

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DANIEL BURNHAM was conscious all his life of the effects on his make-up of two ancestral influences: his Anglo-American antecedents and his family's Swedenborgian religion.

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  1. Thomas S. Hines (Author)
 

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