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Henry Hobson Richardson
J. J. Glessner House, Chicago (Opus, 7)
by Elaine Harrington, Hedrich-Blessing, Dietmar Steiner, Henry Hobson: Richardson
Hardcover, 60 Pages, Published 1993 by Distributed Art Pub Inc (Dap)
ISBN-13: 978-3-8030-2707-8, ISBN: 3-8030-2707-1
"Henry Hobson Richardson designed the Glessner House (1885-87) in Chicago for an industrialist and his family. The house was built in an elite residential neighborhood on the south side of the city near the Loop, and Richardson took advantage of the lot's location on the south-western corner of Prairie Avenue and Eighteenth Street to give the building a special character. He seized this opportunity to provide two impressive facades as we ..."
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