JENNEY, WILLIAM LE BARON

1832–1907, American engineer and architect, b. Fairhaven, Mass. He studied at Harvard Scientific School and the École des Beaux-Arts. Later he learned engineering, constructed a railroad in Panama before the Civil War, and was chief engineer on General Sherman's staff in Georgia. The Home Insurance Building, 10 stories high, which he designed and built in Chicago (1883; since demolished), was the first in which both the floors and the exterior masonry walls were borne by a skeleton framework of metal and has come to be known as the first skyscraper.

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books on: Jenney William Le Baron  - 47 results

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Fathers of the Victorians: The Age of Wilberforce
Book by Ford K. Brown; University Press, 1961
Subjects: Evangelicalism--Church Of England, Wilberforce, William--1759-1833
...452 -7, 466 Jay, William, of Bath, 151...331 , 343 , 360 Jenney, William, 359 Jenyns, Soame...359 Kenyon, second Baron, 90 n., 347...270 n. Laud, William, Archbishop, 162...85 , 87 , 89 , 236 Le Fanu, Sheridan...
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Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology
Book by Lance Day, Ian Mcneil; Routledge, 1998
Subjects: Inventions--History--Dictionaries, Inventors--Biography--Dictionaries, Technology--History--Dictionaries
...and History of Vaccination . MG Jenney, William Le Baron b. 25 September 1832 Fairhaven...cast-iron beams and girders, Jenney produced a load-bearing metal...builders of the city, such as William Holabird , Martin Roche and Louis...
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Architecture and the Esthetics of Plenty
Book by James Marston Fitch; Columbia University Press, 1961
Subjects: Architecture--United States--History
...Hoffman, Josef, 145 Hogarth, William, 57 -58 Hokusai, 118 Holland...Hollywood, 218 Home Insurance Building Jenney , 192 Hood, Raymond, 146 Horticulture...130 Jena theater Gropius , 148 Jenney, William Le Baron, 89 , 192 Johnson, Philip, 255...
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Louis Sullivan as He Lived: The Shaping of American Architecture, a Biography
Book by Willard Connely; Horizon Press, 1960
Subjects: Architecture--United States, Sullivan, Louis H.--1856-1924
...Philadelphia, 43 -5 99 , 163 , 207 Jenney, William Le Baron, 49 - 50 52 , 71 , 79 , 104 , 117 , 138 , 262 Jenney Mundie, 219 Jevons, W. S...71 , 76 , 79 , 92 Johnston, William, 43 Johnston Edelmann, 79 , 81...
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A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell
Book by Donald Worster; Oxford University Press, 2002
Subjects: Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)--Discovery And Exploration, Conservationists--United States--Biography, Explorers--United States--Biography, Grand Canyon (Ariz.)--Discovery And Exploration, Powell, John Wesley--1834-1902, West (U.S.)--Discovery And Exploration
...Ill., 57 , 70 Jacques, Jabez, 115 James, William, 552 Jefferson, Thomas, 61 , 392 , 433 , 512...20 21, 201 , 396 97, 512 Jemison, Mary, 19 Jenney, William Le Baron, 317 Jenney, W.P., 343 Johnson, Alonzo, 129 Johnson...
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Foundations and Teacher Education: Do We Need a New Metaphor?
Journal article by Jeanne Pietig; Journal of Teacher Education, Vol. 48, 1997
Subjects: Educational research--Analysis, Metaphor--Research, Teachers--Training
...design. The successful completion of the imperiled project was largely due to the dedication of its architect, William Le Baron Jenney, and the personal charisma and political finesse of Chicago developer Edward C. Waller (Berger, 1992; Roth...


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magazine articles on: Jenney William Le Baron  - 6 results

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The Inventive Period
Magazine article by Andrew Bernstein; Ideas on Liberty, Vol. 51, April 2001
Subjects: Century in review, Eastman, George, Field, Cyrus West (1819-92), Innovations, Inventors, Jenney, William Le Baron (1832-1907), Personal profiles, Schussele, Christian, Sorel, Edward
...and the Morse Code; William Morton (1819-1868...industrialists as "Robber Barons." They claim that its...architecture wrought by William Le Baron Jenney (1832-1907) and Louis...economic mobility.2 William Graham Summer (1840...
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Chicago City of Builders
Magazine article by Bill Coffin; Risk Management, Vol. 50, April 2003
...Chicago as a rare opportunity to make their name. William Le Baron Jenney (1832-1907) - Jenney came to Chicago after serving...This Chicago native began his career working with William Le Baron Jenney. In 1872, he partnered with John Wellborn...
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The Architects and the City: Holabird & Roche of Chicago, 1880-1918
Magazine article by Francis Morrone; New Criterion, Vol. 16, January 1998
Subjects: Books--Reviews, The Architects and the City: Holabird and Roche of Chicago, 1880-1918 (Book)--Reviews
...At the center of it all stood William Holabird (1854-1923) and Martin...pioneering engineer-architect William Le Baron Jenney in 1875. Roche, who had grown...through ambiguous syntax, that William Holabird died in 1929; the following...
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Arma'05:chicago Celebrating 50 Years
Magazine article; Information Management Journal, Vol. 39, May/Jun 2005
...skyscraper - the Home Insurance Building - designed by William Le Baron Jenney in 1885. Although the building no longer stands...and the Arc de Triomphe. Under instructions from William Wrigley, architects designed the Wrigley Building...
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Arma '05: Chicago Celebrating 50 Years
Magazine article; Information Management Journal, Vol. 39, July 2005
...skyscraper - the Home Insurance Building - designed by William Le Baron Jenney in 1885. Although the building no longer stands...and the Arc de Triomphe. Under instructions from William Wrigley, architects designed the Wrigley Building...
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The Millennium Makers
Newspaper article by From Andy Lines; The Mirror (London, England), January 6, 1999
...The man who lit the world. 29. William I (1028-1087) French lord conquered...Master of the Dutch masters. 47. William Harvey (1578-1657) Unlocked...calculus and symbolic logic. 89. William Le Baron Jenney (1832-1907) Architect of the...
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Building Up Children's Curiosity
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 17, 2002
...Burnham, designer of Union Station in the District; William Le Baron Jenney, father of the steel-framed skyscraper; Mies Van Der Rohe; and the team of William Holabird and Martin Roche. I do wish Miss Cowan would...
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How Chicago Got All High and Mighty; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 1, 2005
...would be placed on building regulations. Into this period of rebuilding came former Union Army engineer Major William Le Baron Jenney (1832-1907). While designing the 138ft, tenstorey Home Insurance Building he incorporated a steel frame...
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Sky No Longer Limit for Skyscrapers; Urban Building Boom Scales New Heights
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 2, 2007
...first skyscraper was the 10-story Home Insurance Building in Chicago, completed in 1885. The architect, Major William Le Baron Jenney, used the innovation of a steel frame supporting the weight of the walls instead of the walls bearing the weight...
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Many Products Will Fill 3m's New Distribution Center
Newspaper article by Kimberly Pohl; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), April 7, 2007
Subjects: 3M Co., Paper products industry
...money will go toward refinancing 29 and 39 S. LaSalle St. in Chicago, constructed in 1894 and 1901. Architect William Le Baron Jenney designed the latter, which was originally the New York Life building. Its one of the earliest examples of a...
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encyclopedia articles on: Jenney William Le Baron  - 4 results

 
 
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Jenney, William Le Baron
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
JENNEY, WILLIAM LE BARON 1832 1907, American engineer and architect, b. Fairhaven, Mass. He studied at Harvard Scientific School and the Ecole des...
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Modern Architecture
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...outrage. In Chicago, William Le Baron Jenney pioneered the use of a...to modern architecture, Le Corbusiers book Vers une...Richard J. Neutra, William Lescaze, and George Howe...Saarinen and the late works of Le Corbusier. Other leading...
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Sullivan, Louis Henry
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...architecture that should be functional and also truly American. Sullivan was employed in the Chicago office of William Le Baron Jenney , designer of the first steel-skeleton skyscraper, and later entered the office of Dankmar Adler, where he...
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Skyscraper
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...but also the walls. This innovation appeared in the Home Insurance Building in Chicago, designed in 1883 by William Le Baron Jenney the first building to employ steel skeleton construction and embody the general characteristics of a modern skyscraper...


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