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Daniel H. Burnham (American architect) ~ Encyclopedia Britannica Daniel Burnham, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago School, Grant Park, Chicago History, Famous Buildings, Chicago Architecture, My Kind Of Town, White City

Daniel Burnham, American architect and urban planner whose impact on the American city was substantial. He was instrumental in the development of the skyscraper and was noted for his highly successful management of the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. Burnham also was known for his ideas about urban planning.

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One of the early modern city planners, Daniel Hudson Burnham was born on September 4, 1846 in Henderson, New York. He went to Snow’s Swedenborgian Academy and later Central High School. Burnham couldn’t get admission in Yale or Harvard after finishing school so, he finally ended up as a draftsman at an architectural firm. The […]

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