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The 1891 building holds William Le Baron Jenney’s genius at the peak of his career. The building uses wind-bracing in the walls, an innovative foundation, bay windows with fanciful detailing to enliven the facade and steel beams to strengthen the corners of the building.
Although Jenney did not cite the most revolutionary passages of the book (pp. 132-134) he certainly was aware of Garbett's plea for a "Tensile" architecture deriving from the use of new materials.
Manhattan Building. Architect William LeBaron Jenney was grappling with the structural and aesthetic challenges of the skyscraper in the late 1880s and when he accepted the commission for the Manhattan Building, he was also at work on the Second Leiter Building.
Jun 11, 2024 · William Le Baron Jenney (born Sept. 25, 1832, Fairhaven, Mass., U.S.—died June 15, 1907, Los Angeles, Calif.) was an American civil engineer and architect whose technical innovations were of primary importance in the development of the skyscraper.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Became Interested in Architecture
- Opened Chicago Architectural Office
- The Home Insurance Building
- Other Jenney Buildings
- Mentor For Younger Architects
- Books
- Online
After Jenney graduated from Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures in 1856, he worked in Mexico as an engineer for the Tehuantepec Railroad Company. The following year, the Berdon Bakery Company employed Jenney to design a mechanical bakery for the French army. During his second stay in France, he continued his studies and gained some practical ex...
After leaving the army in May 1866, Jenney spent the remainder of the year in western Pennsylvania doing engineering work. In 1867 he married Elizabeth Hannah Cobb, with whom he had two sons. In the same year, he relocated to Chicago and, in 1868, opened an architectural office. Eventually Jenney organized the firm Jenney, Schermerhorn, and Bogart....
Jenney began construction of the Home Insurance Building in 1883. That same year, he gave a series of important lectures at the University of Chicago, which were published in Inland Architect and Builder. The Home Insurance Building, finished in 1885 with the assistance of engineer George B. Whitney, became Jenney's most influential engineering wor...
Having gained considerable fame in Chicago for the Home Insurance Building, Jenney became very busy and his business grew rapidly. Continuing to use an iron-and-steel skeletal frame, Jenney next designed the Manhattan Building. Completed in 1891, it was the first 16-story commercial building in the United States that was supported entirely on an ir...
Jenney was not only an important architect and engineer, he contributed greatly to the development of modern buildings by training several younger architects who became the next generation of innovative and influential building designers. His trainees included Louis Henri Sullivan (1856-1924), Martin Roche (1855-1927), William Holabird (1854-1923),...
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Considered “the father of the American skyscraper,” William LeBaron Jenney is credited with implementing the use of a metal skeleton frame system to bear the weight of a building’s exterior walls. His work made the modern skyscraper possible.
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William Le Baron Jenney, Inventor of the skyscraper and for many years one of the foremost of America’s architects and en-gineers. died In Los Angeles, Cal., early yesterday morning at the age of 74 years.
