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Dec 6, 2023 · The Grand Basin and the buildings surrounding it were officially designated as the “Court of Honor,” which the Fair’s Director of Works, Daniel Burnham, cast as the “most dignified” region of the Fair, but their uniformly whitewashed façades lent them the popular name “The White City.” (Although the buildings’ exteriors were ...
The White City is largely credited for ushering in the City Beautiful movement and planting the seeds of modern city planning. The highly integrated design of the landscapes, promenades, and structures provided a vision of what is possible when planners, landscape architects, and architects work together on a comprehensive design scheme.
May 24, 2024 · World’s Columbian Exposition, fair held in 1893 in Chicago, Illinois, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s voyage to America. The chief planner was the Chicago architect Daniel H. Burnham. The classical facades of the fair’s ‘White City’ were electrically lighted at night.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
MacMonnies Fountain and Machinery Hall, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893.- Circus performers along the Midway Plaisance, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893.
- The original Ferris wheel, designed by George Washington Gale Ferris, built for the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893.
- The Red Man's Greeting
- Letter written by 16-year-old Jane Elliott Sever during her visit to the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893.
- A balloon rising over the Midway Plaisance, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893.
Set in Chicago during the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, it tells the story of World’s Fair architect Daniel Burnham and of H. H. Holmes, a criminal figure widely considered the first serial killer in the United States. [1] Leonardo DiCaprio purchased the film rights in 2010. [2]
- Erik Larson
- 2003
White City (sometimes listed as White City Amusement Park in print advertisements) was a recreational area located in the Greater Grand Crossing and Woodlawn community areas on the south side of Chicago from 1905 until the 1950s.
Nicknamed the “White City,” the fair’s grand Neoclassical buildings were planned as a cohesive whole in a landscaped setting; they made a lasting impression on millions of visitors. Often noted as the inspiration for the City Beautiful movement, the fair proved to be a turning point both… Read More
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In short, the White City was a thoroughly and deliberately segregated space. Frontispiece to Ida B. Wells’s pamphlet, The Reason Why the Colored American is not in the World’s Columbian Exposition .
