It was built from 1884 to 1885, enlarged by adding two stories in 1891, and demolished in 1931. The building was the first fully metal-framed building and is considered the first skyscraper. Jenney is best known for designing the ten-story Home Insurance Building in Chicago. He also designed the Horticultural Building for the World's Columbian Exposition (1893) held in Chicago. In Chicago, he designed the Ludington Building and Manhattan Building, both built in 1891 and National Historic Landmarks. He served as first Vice President from 1898 to 1899. Jenney was elected an Associate of the American Institute of Architects in 1872 and became a Fellow in 1885. Chicago residence designed for Walter Cass Newberry, 1889 They had two children named Max and Francis. On May 8, 1867, Jenney and Elizabeth "Lizzie" Hannah Cobb, from Cleveland, Ohio, were married. In later years future leaders of the Chicago School like Louis Sullivan, Daniel Burnham, William Holabird, and Martin Roche, performed their architectural apprenticeships on Jenney's staff. ĭuring the late 1870s, he commuted weekly to Ann Arbor, Michigan, to start and teach in the architecture program at the University of Michigan. After the war, in 1867, Jenney moved to Chicago and began his own architectural office, which specialized in commercial buildings and urban planning. In 1861, he returned to the US to join the Union Army as an engineer in the Civil War, designing fortifications for Generals Sherman and Grant.īy the end of the war, he had become a major, and was Engineer-in-Charge at Nashville's Union headquarters. He graduated in 1856, one year after his classmate, Gustave Eiffel, the designer of the Eiffel Tower. The Home Insurance Building in Chicago built in 1885 (photo after a 1891 addition of 2 more floors)Īt École Centrale Paris, he learned the latest iron construction techniques as well as the classical functionalist doctrine of Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand (1760-1834) - Professor of Architecture at the Ecole Polytechnique. In Paris he discovers the writings of Viollet-le-Duc and he will become one of his followers: " the research and discoveries of Viollet le Duc surpass anything that any other author has been able to write". Jenney began his formal education at Phillips Academy, Andover, in 1846, and at the Lawrence Scientific school at Harvard in 1853, but transferred to École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures (École Centrale Paris) to study engineering and architecture. Jenney was born in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, on September 25, 1832, the son of William Proctor Jenney and Eliza LeBaron Gibbs. In 1998, Jenney was ranked number 89 in the book 1,000 Years, 1,000 People: Ranking the Men and Women Who Shaped the Millennium. William Le Baron Jenney (Septem– June 14, 1907) was an American architect and engineer known for building the first skyscraper in 1884.
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