Timeline

Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
Architect Leiter II Building Chicago
Architect Manhattan Building Chicago
Architect Metropolitan Block Lake Geneva
1869/00/00 Governer Oglesby's mansion is designed by Chicago architect William LeBaron Jenney. Architect Oglesby Mansion Decatur
1870/00/00 Riverside, Illinois is established, the 1600 acre community was built 1868 to 1870 Supervising Engineer Riverside Landscape Architecture District Riverside
1871/00/00 William Le Baron Jenney designs plans for Humboldt, Garfield and Douglas Parks and interlinking boulevards. Architect Humboldt Park Chicago
1871/00/00 William Le Baron Jenney designs plans for Humboldt, Garfield and Douglas Parks and interlinking boulevards. Architect Garfield Park Chicago
1879/00/00 The 1st Leiter building is built at 200-208 W Monroe Street in Chcago as a department store for Levi Leiter. Clad in terra cotta fireproofing materials, the iron frame building features elevators. The 1st Leiter building was razed in 1972. Architect Leiter II Building Chicago Invention of the Structural Steel Skyscraper
1884/03/01 W L B Jenney receives a permit to build an eight-story and basement office structure (lost), at the NE corner of La Salle and Adams Sts in Chicago, to cost $300,000 for the Home Insurance Company of New York. Architect
1884/05/01 Construction begins on the Home Insurance Building (razed 1931) at S La Salle and Adams Strs in Chicago, IL. The 10 story building, designed by William Jenney, uses a weight-bearing iron frame skeleton instead of the standard exterior load-bearing walls. Architect Invention of the Structural Steel Skyscraper
1916/00/00 1701 S Prairie Ave built for hardware baron William Gold Hibbard (razed) Architect Prairie Avenue District Chicago
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