ROOT, JOHN WELLBORN

1850–91, American architect, b. Lumpkin, Ga. He worked in New York City with James Renwick and became a partner of D. H. Burnham in Chicago. The firm created the modern type of highly organized architectural office suited to the planning of metropolitan buildings. Its partners were pioneers in the development of the steel-frame office building, and won international attention by their planning of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893. Root developed a type of ornament, based upon Romanesque design, that was later further developed by Louis Henry Sullivan.

See studies by H. Monroe (1896) and D. Hoffmann (1973).

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The Education of John Dewey: A Biography
Book by Jay Martin; Columbia University Press, 2002
Subjects: Dewey, John--1859-1952, Educators--United States--Biography, Philosophers--United States--Biography
...his Autobiography of an Idea (1924)- In Chicago, he, Frank Lloyd Wright, LeBaron Jenny, Daniel Burnham, and John Wellborn Root developed a new American aes- thetic, which Sullivan characterized in his famous phrase form fol- lows function...
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Roots of Contemporary American Architecture: A Series of Thirty-Seven Essays Dating from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present
Book by Lewis Mumford; Grove Press, 1959
Subjects: Architecture, Architecture--United States
...Center, 21 plan, 338 Roebling, John and Washington, 8 Roland Park...Building, Chicago, 221 , 222 , 238 Root, John Wellborn, 6 , 13 , 19 , 130 , 221 , 429...Adaptations , 93 - 100 Ruskin, John, 9 , 25 , 109 , 173 , 218 Rust...
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The Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890
Book by Steven Hahn; Oxford University Press, 1984
Subjects: Cotton Trade--Georgia--History--19th Century, Georgia--Politics And Government--1775-1865, Georgia--Politics And Government--1865-1950, Populism--Georgia
...William S., 35 , 96 Thomson, William S., 176 Thurmond, John, 64 Thurmond, Richard, 64 Thurmond, William, 79 Tolbert...Watts, James Washington, 55 , 57 Weaver, James B., 279 Wellborn, James, 32 West, T. M., 197
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Inventing Modern: Growing Up with X-Rays, Skyscrapers, and Tailfins
Book by John H. Lienhard; Oxford University Press, 2003
Subjects: Lienhard, John H.--1930---Childhood And Youth, Material Culture--Social Aspects--United States--History--20th Century, Science--Social Aspects--United States--History--20th Century, Technological Innovations--Social Aspects--United States--History--20th Century, Technology--Social Aspects--United States--History--20th Century, United States--Civilization--20th Century
...Theodore, 65 66 67, 69 70 82 83 , 104 Root, John Wellborn, 91 92 Roper, Sylvester, 121...68 Runyan, Damon, 134 Ruskin, John, 28 147 194 95 Russia, 248 51...145 46 surrealism, 73 Sutter, John Augustus, 3 11 Sutters Fort, 3...
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A Guide to the History of Illinois
Book by John Hoffmann; Greenwood Press, 1991
Subjects: Illinois--History--Bibliography
...Raymond, 88 Robinson, John Bunyan, 149 Robinson...Company, 294 Rockefeller, John D., 170 Rockford, 10...Roosevelt University, 169 Root, David, 245 Root, George...Hinchliff, 234 Root, John Wellborn, 182 Root and Cady, 185...
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"Our 'House Beautiful' ": the Woman's Temple and the WCTU Effort to Establish Place and Identity in Downtown Chicago, 1887-1898
Journal article by Rachel E. Bohlmann; Journal of Women's History, Vol. 11, 1999
Subjects: Women--History
...Minutes of the NWCTU, 1887 , 58. 7 Harriet Monroe, John Wellborn Root: A Study of His Life and Work (Park Forest, Ill...101-4. and Donald Hoffman, The Architecture of John Wellborn Root (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University...
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Tools and Machinery of the Granite Industry
Journal article by Paul Wood; The Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association, Inc., Vol. 59, 2006
Subjects: History, Igneous rock, Industrywide conditions, Machine tools, Masonry, Physical properties, Quarries, Series & special reports, United States
...this technique is attributed both to John Park of Scotland (circa 1770) and...in Chicago was designed by Burnham Root and built in 1889-91. The building...building designed by the noted architect John Wellborn Root. The other example is the Ames Building...
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Between Silence and Benality: the Poetic Search for Community
Journal article by Richard N. Masteller; College Literature, Vol. 24, 1997
Subjects: American Literature--History And Criticism, English Literature--History And Criticism
...class of Chicago society. Her father was a prominent lawyer in the rapidly growing city. Her brother-in-law was John Wellborn Root, architect with Daniel Burnham of the Monadnock and Reliance Buildings, initial monuments of the skyscraper style...
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"Working" in the West: The Canadian Prairies as Playground in Late-Victorian Literature
Journal article by Carter F. Hanson; American Review of Canadian Studies, Vol. 31, 2001
Subjects: Adventure fiction--1900s (Decade) AD, Adventure stories--1900s (Decade) AD, Books--Criticism and interpretation, British--Authorship, Canadians--Authorship, Western Canada--Portrayals
...methods by which Calvert raised his root and cereal crops....would...of ignorance on the prairies. John J. Rowan, in The Em igrant...fiction by British authors like John Mackie tended ironically to hamper...1.) J. Lee Thompson and John H. Thompson, "Ralph Connor...
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Confronting Religion: Veiled Muslim Witnesses and the Confrontation Clause
Journal article by Brian M. Murray; Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 85, 2010
Subjects: American Muslims--Laws, regulations and rules, Confrontation (Criminal law)--Religious aspects, Confrontation (Law)--Religious aspects, Cross examination--Laws, regulations and rules, Cross-examination--Laws, regulations and rules, Freedom of religion--Laws, regulations and rules, Muslims in the United States--Laws, regulations and rules
...because both correspond to the root of the potential trauma. The...implications of veiling). (102) John Witte, Jr., The Essential...WASHINGTON, 1745-1799, at 416 (John C. Fitzpatrick ed., 1931...and physical cues); Olin Guy Wellborn III, Demeanor, 76 CORNELL...
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Beaux Arts on the Prairie
Magazine article by John Zukowsky; Humanities, Vol. 21, November 2000
Subjects: Architecture, Chicago Illinois, Cities, Postwar reconstruction, Urban development, World War I
...Arts on the Prairie by John Zukowsky The period after...Even this renewal had its roots in the 1909 Plan of Chicago...White, and Holabird and Root. Buildings by them and...likes of Louis Sullivan, John Wellborn Root, Daniel H. Burnham...
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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
...1930s, when the firm became Holabird Root. The author, a professor of architectural...best exemplified by such Holabird Root creations as the Palmolive Building...Arts-trained Louis Sullivan and John Wellborn Root. And by the early 1890s, Daniel...
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Taming the Savage City
Magazine article by Carl Smith; Humanities, Vol. 30, September 2009
Subjects: Architecture, Cities, School buildings, Seismic engineering
...Daniel H. Burnham. With his partner John Wellborn Root, who died early in 1891, Burnham...Chicago Federation of Labor president John J. Fitzpatrick was particularly...of slums is not to seek out their root cause in fundamental inequities but...
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Chicago City of Builders
Magazine article by Bill Coffin; Risk Management, Vol. 50, April 2003
...William Le Baron Jenney. In 1872, he partnered with John Wellborn Root (1850-1891 ) and together their firm produced numerous...Gabriels Church and the Union Stock Yard Gate. When Root died in 1891, the firm changed to D.H. Burnham and...
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"All Sail, No Anchor": Architecture after Modernism
Magazine article by Michael J. Lewis; New Criterion, Vol. 22, December 2003
Subjects: Architecture
...Victorian generation, including Frank Furness and those inventors of the commercial skyscraper, Louis Sullivan and John Wellborn Root; the 1920s boom created the peerless inventor of skyscrapers, Raymond Hood; and even the much lamented 1980s brought...
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'Machine Age' Rises in Hirshhorn Exhibit
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 30, 2002
...then the worlds highest structure. D.H. Burnham and John Wellborn Root of "the Chicago school" of modernist architects created...neoclassic architectural style overrode most of Burnhams and Roots innovations. The return to the conservative styles...
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Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), May 12, 2007
...Torres, Wil, 42-5 1/2 . 4, John Rymer, Mar, 40-9 1/2...Thu, 38- 1/2 . 9, Bryce Root, Chu, 37- 1/2 . 10, Josh...Peters, GB, 10:13.87. 4, John Covey, Ree, 10:55.78...Baldwin, CL, 136-2. 5, Allen Wellborn, Oakl, 129-9. 6, Sean...


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Root, John Wellborn
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ROOT, JOHN WELLBORN 1850 91, American architect, b. Lumpkin, Ga. He worked in New York...by their planning of the Worlds Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893. Root developed a type of ornament, based upon Romanesque design, that was...


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