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No Small Plans. How did the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 impact Chicago and its architecture? October inferno. On the night of October 8, 1871, fire spread across Chicago. While the cause of the blaze is unknown, its origin was at 558 West DeKoven Street—an address that today is home to a Chicago Fire Department training facility.
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Oct 8, 2021 · Skyscrapers, fire-resistant buildings, breathtaking architecture and the eye-popping structures of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition came in the decades following the fire — and were writ deeply into the city’s genetic code.
- Lee Bey
Oct 8, 2021 · 10/8/2021. How the Chicago Fire Changed the City's Architecture. It’s been 150 years since the last embers from the Great Fire flickered out, leaving behind a smoldering city with the will...
Vocabulary. On October 8, 1871, a fire broke out in a barn on the southwest side of Chicago, Illinois. For more than 24 hours, the fire burned through the heart of Chicago, killing 300 people and leaving one-third of the city's population homeless. The "Great Rebuilding" was the effort to construct a new, urban center.
Through the 1870s and 1880s, Burnham & Root, and such contemporaries as Adler & Sullivan and Holabird & Roche, helped rebuild the city that had been destroyed in the fire of 1871. In so doing, they developed what would come to be called the Chicago School of skyscraper architecture. Following Root's premature death in 1891, Burnham turned to a ...
Considered the first example of a comprehensive planning document in the nation, the fairground featured grand boulevards, classical building facades, and lush gardens. Often called the "White City," it popularized neoclassical architecture in a monumental, yet rational Beaux-Arts style.
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