American architect, notable for designing the first skyscraper. - AsNotedIn
| Notable Position | Organization | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Union Army | |||
| William Le Baron Jenney Company | |||
| Loring and Jenney | 1868 | ||
| West Park Commission, Chicago | 1869 | 1880 | |
| Jenney and Otis | 1886 | 1889 | |
| Jenney and Mundie | 1891 | 1905 | |
| Jenney, Mundie and Jensen | 1905 | 1907 |
| 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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