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Photo Details

‘1640’

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'1815'

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'2016' 'J.W. Taylor's Architectural Photographic Series, 146 La Salle Stree[t]' [added by hand: '151 Monroe St Chicago']

'1394' 'J.W. Taylor, Chicago, 151 Monroe St'

'4029'

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'[..] Taylor, Chicago, 151 Monroe St' '2687'

'2297'

‘2119’

'1137'

'3077'

'4011'

'1706'

'560'

'2426'

'J.W.T 3023'

‘2413’

'701 Taylor / Photo'

Inscriptions

obv: 'America' rev: -

obv: 'America'rev: -

obv: 'St Paul' rev: 'Miles & Johnson / St. Paul'

obv: 'America' rev: -

obv: 'Philadelphia' rev: 'Depot - Philadelphia'

obv: 'Goelet Cottage Newport U.S.A' rev: 'Goelet Cottage / Newport R.I.'

obv: 'Pittsburg [sic] - Bridge of Sighs City Hall' rev: 'Pittsburg Pa / Bridge of Sighs City Hall / By Richardson'

obv: 'America' rev: -

obv: 'Cotton Exchange New Orleans' rev: 'New Orleans / Cotton Exchange'

obv: 'America' rev: -

obv: 'Milwaukee U.S.A' rev: 'Milwaukee ' E T Nihr. E T Mix, Archt'

obv: 'Mills Buildings New York' rev: 'Mills Building / New York'

obv: 'Chicago' [plus Kilburn's stamp]rev: 'Chicago / Wilson and Marble' [plus Kilburn's stamp]

obv: 'Chicago' rev: 'Chicago / Burnham + Root'

obv: 'Chicago' rev: 'Chicago / Wheelock + Clay Ar'

obv: 'Chicago' rev: 'Chicago / Cobb + Frost Ar'

obv: 'Chicago' rev: 'Chicago / by Wilson + Marble'

obv: 'Chicago' [plus Kilburn's stamp]rev: 'Chicago / Burnham + Root' [plus Kilburn's stamp]

obv: 'Chicago'rev: 'Chicago / Peabody and Stearnes [sic]'

Identification and Refs

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Chicago: Hotel Florence, 11111 S Forrestville Ave. Pullman, by SS Beman, 1881 [ref Payne, Sinkevitch, p 470]

St Paul, Minnesota: Casey block, possibly by Clarence Johnston [no Miles on record]

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First Unitarian Church, Chestnut & Van Pelt Sts, by Frank Furness, 1883-6 (ref Thomas et al, p 246)

Newport, Rhode Island: Goelet Cottage.

Pittsburgh: Alleghany County Buildings, by H H Richardson, 1883-8

view of A school for Pullman, by S S Beman. Another view is in the Ryerson Library, Art Institute of Chicago, in the S.S.Beman Collection on Pullman, call # 2001.6, Portfolio 3 [information from David Swan, 2004].

New Orleans: Cotton Exchange, 1881

Douglas County Courthouse, Omaha, Nebraska (information from James Cravatt 2006)

Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul Railroad Depot, Michigan Ave, Milwaukee, by E T Mix, 1886 (Gurda p 138; Szczesny-Adams)

New York: Mills Building, by G B Post, 1881-3 [Weisman, p pp 461-2; Lewis & Morgan, p 41, references p 145]

Chicago: by Wilson and Marble

Chicago: by Wilson & Marble

Chicago: by Burnham & Root [cf Lewis & Morgan p 72]

Chicago: M D Wells house, by Wheelock & Clay, c 1889 See no 19.

Chicago: by Cobb & Frost

Chicago: by Wilson & Marble

Chicago: by Burnham & Root

Chicago: Lambert Tree house, by Peabody & Stearns, 1883-4 [Lewis & Morgan p 134]

Content

4 st red brick, slightly French. block with three shops at ground floor

symmetrical complex composition of 2/3 storeys plus attic, ground floor verandah

3 storey sub-Romanesque block with a central entrance and a ground floor shop either side, labelled 'Casey' over the entrance.

Richardsonian Byzantine/ Romanesque square tower with a tight colonnaded rotunda and conical roof, attached to a church with a Romanesque wheel window.

Gutsy porch with stubby columns, foliated capitals, segmental arches.

A large and most uncottageonous house with a main wing of a two storeys plus an attic consisting of a long gable roof with six large dormer windows; an arcaded loggia type verandah, and a pointed dome pavilion and rear wing visible to one side.

View of the bridge with the gaol to the left and the court / administration buildig to the right, road surface unfinished.

Brick possible school building, 2 storeys with 3 storey centre and a quasi-tower with a saddleback roof.

4 storey corner building with mansard roof in a rich Baroque / Second Empire style, with caryatids, pedimental sculpture &c, labelled '1881' and 'Cotton Exchange'.

Rectangular building on a hill, 2 storeys plus basement, square colonnaded tower with dome above, suggestive of a legislative building or court house (neo-Romanesque church tower in background).

Symmetrical 2 storey brick Romanesque block with a sizeable central clocktower.

11 storey block in the form of a U, open to the street, but that the centre is filled for two levels with an arched entry and staircase.

Detail of a Byzanto-Romanesque entry porch to a rock faced apparently residential building.

Detail of an arched corner porch to a rock faced apparently residential building.

Detail of a gutsy entry porch with clustered colonette piers, to a rock faced apparently residential building.

Detail of a Franco-classical porch , to a Second Empire mansion.

3 storey brick row house with stone oriel, dresssings and entry staircase.

Residential entry porch to a brick building, recessed behind a semicircular arch with stone piers.

Entry porch to a random stone faced building, recessed behind a semicircular arch with a free form, almost Gaudian balustrade (influenced by the porch of Richardson's Trinity Rectory).

Façade and recessed entry porch to a three storey rock faced building, with some carved foliated details and a trabeated porch or verandah just visible on one side.

Architects

Solon Spencer Beman (1853-1914) [Witheys, pp 49-50; Jordy, p 70; Randall, p 360]

Clarence H Johnston (1859-1936) [Witheys, p 326].

Frank Furness (1839-1912) Philadelphia [Witheys, pp 226-7; Morrison, passim]

Henry Hobson Richardson (1838-1886) [Van Rensselaer, passim; Witheys, pp 508-510]

Solon Spencer Beman (1853-1914) [Witheys, pp 49-50; Jordy, p 70; Randall, p 360]

Mix, Edward Townsend

George Browne Post (1837-1913) [Witheys, pp 482-4; Weisman, passim]

Wilson & Marble [Horatio R Wilson (1857-1917) & Oliver W Marble] [Randall gives Wilson's birth date as 1858] [Randall, p 377; Witheys pp 392, 663]

Burnham & Root [partnership from 1873 to 1891 of Daniel Hudson Burnham (1846-1912) & John Wellborn Root (1850-1892) [Witheys, pp 96-8, 525-6]; Randall, p 30; [Witheys p 125]. [Condit, Rise of the Skyscraper,pp 63, 113]

Wheelock & Clay [Otis Leonard Wheelock (1816-c1886) & William Wilson Clay (1849-1926)] [Condit, Rise of the Skyscraper, pp 63, 113; Randall, p 362; Witheys pp 125, 168]

Cobb & Frost [Henry Ives Cobb (1859-1931) & Charles Sumner Frost (1856-1931)] [Witheys, pp 128-9, 224]. [Condit, Rise of the Skyscraper,p 80]

Wilson & Marble [Horatio R Wilson (1857-1917) & Oliver W Marble] [Randall gives Wilson's birth date as 1858] [Randall, p 377; Witheys pp 392, 663]

Burnham & Root [partnership from 1873 to 1891 of Daniel Hudson Burnham (1846-1912) & John Wellborn Root (1850-1892) [Witheys, pp 96-8, 525-6]; Randall, p 30; [Witheys p 125]. [Condit, Rise of the Skyscraper,pp 63, 113]

Peabody & Stearns [partnership 1870-1917 of Robert Swain Peabody (1845-1917) & John Goddard Stearns (1843-1917] [Witheys pp 462-3, 568].