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John Wellborn Root (January 10, 1850 – January 15, 1891) was an American architect who was based in Chicago with Daniel Burnham. He was one of the founders of the Chicago School style.
John Wellborn Root was an architect, one of the greatest practitioners in the Chicago school of commercial American architecture. His works are among the most distinguished early attempts at a mature aesthetic expression of the height and the function of the skyscraper.
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Jul 30, 2002 · Learn about the life and work of John Wellborn Root, a Georgia native and a pioneer of skyscraper design in Chicago and Atlanta. He designed the Equitable Building, the first skyscraper in Atlanta, and wrote about the philosophy of commercial architecture.
May 21, 2018 · John Wellborn Root (1850-1891) lent his name and artistic genius to one of nineteenth-century America's most famed architectural firms, Burnham and Root. Their Chicago office designed and built some of the tallest commercial buildings in the world.
Sep 18, 2021 · The three-and-a-half story mansion Burnham & Root designed for stockyards magnate John B. Sherman at 2100 South Prairie Avenue was the embodiment of the house virtually every other Chicago tycoon of 1874 wished to own and soon a torrent of residential commissions were surging in. But there was more.
Jan 15, 2021 · January 15, 2021, marks the 130th anniversary of the death of architect John Wellborn Root in 1891 at the age of 41. As Consulting Architect to the 1893 World’s Fair with his partner Daniel Burnham, Root’s invaluable contributions are recorded by Harriet Monroe in her chapter “The World’s Columbian Exposition” in John.
Learn about the influential Chicago architects Daniel Burnham and John Wellborn Root, who designed tall buildings with innovative structural systems. Find out how they met, started their firm, and died prematurely.
