Henry Ives Cobb’s Chicago
Architecture, Institutions, and the Making of a Modern Metropolis
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I A Proper Bostonian’s Chicago
1 The Union Club, Self-Made Men, and Chicago’s First Period of Growth
2 Three Mansions, Four Self-Makers, and Chicago’s Metropolitan Expansion
3 The Chicago Opera House and the Owings Building: Skyscrapers and Rationalized Work I
4 Cultural Politics and the Newberry Library’s Compartmentalization of Knowledge
Part II Cultural Institutions and Metropolitan Maturity
5 Cobb’s Varieties of the Romanesque
6 Skyscrapers and Rationalized Work II
7 Self-Made Men, Civic Culture, and the University of Chicago (1889–1893)
8 Science, Self-Makers, and the University’s Second Building Campaign (1893–1897)
9 Public Square and the Federal Building: Design, Civic Discourse, and Rationalized Government
Part III Trials and Triumphs Within and Outside Chicago
10 Professional Ethics, Rationalized Government, and the Pennsylvania State Capitol
11 Falls from Grace
12 Chicago in New York
Notes
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