Chicago's North Michigan Avenue: Planning and Development, 1900-1930

by John W. Stamper

Since its opening in the 1920s, Chicago's North Michigan Avenue has been one of the city's most prestigious commerical corridors, lined by some of its most architecturally distinctive business, residential, and hotel buildings. Planned by Daniel Burnham in 1909, the avenue became the principal connecting link between downtown and the wealthy, residential "Gold Coast" north of the Loop. Some thirty buildings were constructed along its path in the ten-year...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226770850
• ISBN13: 9780226770857
• Release Date: August 1991
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.0" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Stamper is a wizard

John W. Stamper is a man's man. He hit the spot with this book, this masterpiece of architectural history on Chicago's North Michigan Ave. hit home with me. I can't wait until his next book, PLEASE! John W. Stamper, WRITE MORE!