Glessner House
- Title:
- Glessner House
- Collection:
- Andrew Dickson White Architectural Photographs Collection
- Creator:
- Richardson, Henry Hobson (American architect, 1838-1886)
- Creation Date:
- 1885-1887 (building)
ca. 1887 (photograph)
- Location:
- Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States
- Country:
- United States
- ID Number:
- 10035008
- Accession Number:
- 15/5/3090.00155
- Collection Number:
- 15-5-3090
- File Name:
- 10035008.jpg
- Style/Period:
- Romanesque Revival
- Materials/Techniques:
- albumen prints
- Subject:
- Architecture
cityscapes (representations)
cityscapes (representations)
streetscapes
Construction views
houses
rustication
lunettes (wall components)
Glessner House, Chicago, Illinois
photographs - Measurement:
- 15.24 x 20.8 (centimeters)
- Description:
- "A mature design by renowned architect Henry Hobson Richardson, Glessner House is famous for its site development, innovative floor plan, and rugged Romanesque Revival-style facade. A reminder of what Prairie Avenue looked like when it was home to some of the city's finest mansions, the Glessner House is the only remaining Chicago building by this Boston-based architect. The building was designed for John J. Glessner, an executive with the International Harvester Company. It now contains a house museum." (Source: City of Chicago, Chicago Landmarks website: ) The building was completed a year after the architect's death. See also: the Glessner House Museum site: www.glessnerhouse.org.
- Source:
- Data from: A.D. White Architectural Photographs, Cornell University Library
http://cidc.library.cornell.edu/adw/albumen.htm - Cite As:
- Andrew Dickson White Architectural Photograph Collection, #15-5-3090. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- Andrew Dickson White architectural photograph collection
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The images in this collection are in the public domain and are believed to have no known U.S. copyright or other restrictions. The Library does not charge for permission to use these materials and does not grant or deny permission to publish or otherwise distribute them. However, as a good scholarly practice we recommend that all patrons cite the Library as the source of the reproduction. For a more detailed explanation please read the Library Guidelines for Using Public Domain Text, Images, Audio, and Video Reproduced from Cornell University Library Collections at http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/CULCopyright.