This page last updated 07/26/2008

This list does not include every building designed by these architects, but I will attempt to add more biographical information and more buildings as time (and money) permit.   At the same time,  many buildings in my Chicago collection are not listed here, as the architects and dates of completion are unknown.  All cards are listed at Postcards A-Z.

My sincere thanks to all the folks who have helped me with information on these buildings, and particular John Hug, a volunteer with the Chicago Architecture Foundation, and Dave Daruszka who hosts an excellent Ridge Historical Society web site.

The buildings  listed and not linked are my wish list.  The architects are not listed in any particular order.
 
 

Pat Sabin

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• Central Music Hall, 1879, State and Randolph Streets

• Schiller Building (later Garrick Theater), 64 West Randolph Street, 1891-92, destroyed 1961
• Bordon Block, 1879-80, northwest corner of Randolph and Dearborn streets
• Rothschild Store  (first one), 1881,  210 West Monroe Street
• Jewelers Building, 1881-82, 15 South Wabash Avenue Revell Building, 1881-83, northeast  corner of  Wabash Avenue and Adams Street; designated Chicago Landmark 1981.
• Third McVickers Theater, 1883,1885, 25 West Madison Street, demolished in 1922
• The Zion Temple, 1885, Washington and Ogden Avenue
• Thirty-Ninth Street Passenger Station, 1886, demolished in 1934
• Standard Club, 1887-88, southwest corner of Michigan Ave. and 24th Street,  Demolished in 1910.
• The Auditorium Building, 1887-89, northwest corner of Michigan Ave and Congress Pkwy.  Designated a Chicago Landmark in 1976.
• Troescher Building, 1884, 15 South Wacker Drive
• Stock Exchange Building, 1893-94, 30 North LaSalle Street
• Kaufmann Store and Flats, 2312-14 N. Lincoln Ave,  South half 1883, north half, 1887 (Chicago Landmark)
• Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company, 1899, State Street and Madison
  

  
  

Baumann and Huehl

• Chamber of Commerce Building, 1888-89, southeast corner of LaSalle and Washington  Streets, demolished in 1928.

• Illinois Central Railroad Station,  1892-1893

• Medinah Temple

Solon S. Beman

• Grand Central Station, 1889-90, southwest corner of Harrison and Wells Streets
• Studebaker Building (later Fine Arts Building) 1895, 629 South Wabash Ave.
• Pullman Building, Michigan Avenue at Adams Street

W. W. Boyington 

• Chicago Water Tower and Pumping Station, 1866, 1869
• Chicago Northwestern Railway Station, 1881, Wells Street at Kinzie
• Columbus Memorial Building, 1883; State Street at Washington.
• Old Union Station, 1881
• Post Office /  Federal Building , 1882-1885
• Chicago Board of Trade, LaSalle Street,  1882-1885

(Several buildings in Joliet, including the Joliet Penitentiary)

Leroy Buffington

• Willoughby Building, 1887, northwest corner of Jackson Blvd. and Franklin St.

Burnham and Root

• The Montauk Block, 1881-82, 64-70 West Monroe Street, destroyed.
• Calumet Club House, 1881-1883, northeast corner of 20th and Michigan, destroyed by fire
• Sidney Kent House, 1882-83, 2944 South Michigan Avenue (Chicago Landmark)
  
• Rialto Building, 1883-86, 132-148 West Van Buren; destroyed
• Insurance Exchange Building, 1884-85, southwest corner of LaSalle and Adams, destroyed
• McCormick Harvesting Machine Co, 1884-86, southwest corner of Wacker and Jackson; destroyed.
• E. E. Ayer House, 1885-86; northeast corner of State and Banks; destroyed.
• Art Institute (original)-later the Chicago Club, 1885-87, southwest corner of Michigan and Van Buren,  destroyed.
• Phenix Building, 1885-87, 111 West Jackson, destroyed.
• Church of the Covenant, 1887, southeast corner of Belden and Halsted; destroyed
• The Rookery, 1885-86, 209 South LaSalle Street; designated a Chicago Landmark 1972
• Rand-McNally Building, 1888-1890, 165 West Adams, destroyed.
• First Regiment Armory, 1889-91, northwest corner of 16th and Michigan; destroyed.
• Great Northern Hotel (originally the Chicago Hotel), 1890-92, northeast corner of Dearborn St. and Jackson Blvd.,   demolished in 1940.
• Ashland Block, 1891-92, northeast corner of Clark and Randolph Streets, demolished in 1949.
• Monadnock Block (original building) 1889-91,  53 West Jackson Boulevard. Designated a Chicago Landmark in 1973.
• Women's Temple, 1891-92, southwest corner of LaSalle and Monroe Streets, demolished in 1926.
• Masonic Temple, 1891-92, northeast corner of State and Randolph Streets, demolished in 1939.
• Union Stock Yards Entrance
  

D. H. Burnham and Company

• First National Bank Building, 1896, 38 South Dearborn Street
• Fisher Building, 1895-96, 343 South Dearborn Street; designed Chicago Landmark 1978
• Marshall Field , 1902, block of State, Randolph, Wabash and Washington Streets
• Railway Exchange Building, 1903-4, northwest corner of Michigan Ave. and Jackson Blvd.
• The Heyworth Building, 1905, southwest corner of Madison Street and Wabash Ave.
• The People's Gas Company Building, 122  South Michigan Avenue, 1910
• Insurance Exchange Building (second),175 West Jackson Blvd,  1911
• Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company (original structure, Louis Sullivan), 1903-3; 1906. Chicago Landmark 1970.
  

Cobb and Frost

• Chicago Opera House, 1884-85, Demolished in 1912.

Henry Ives Cobb

• Newberry Library, 60 West Walton, 1892
• University of Chicago (original Tudor Buildings), 1892
• Old Chicago Historical Society Building, 632 N. Dearborn St, 1892
• Chicago Athletic Club, 12  South Michigan Avenue, 1912
• Chicago Varnish Company, completed 1895, 33 W. Kinzie St.. Designated a Chicago Landmark  July 25, 2001

Frost and Granger

• The Coliseum, 1900, 1513 South Wabash
• LaSalle Street Station, 1903

Holabird and Roche

• Monadnock Block, south addition, 1893, northwest corner of Dearborn and Van Buren Streets. Designated a Chicago Landmark 1973.

• Tacoma Building, 1887-89, northeast corner of LaSalle and Madison Streets, demolished in    1929
• City Hall, 1905-09,  and 1909-11;  corner of LaSalle and Clark Streets; designated Chicago   Landmark, 1982.
• Old Colony Building, 1893-94, 407 South Dearborn Street; designated Chicago Landmark,1978
• Cable Building (Hoops Building), 1898-99, southeast corner of Wabash Ave. and Jackson  Boulevard, demolished 1961.

William Le Baron Jenney
 

• Home Insurance Building, 1884-85, northeast corner of LaSalle and Adams Streets,  demolished 1931
• The Fair Store, 1890-91, north side of Adams Street from State to Dearborn
• Manhattan Building, 1889-91, 431 South Dearborn Street; designated Chicago  Landmark,1978
• Leiter II Building (originally Siegal, Cooper and Co), 1891; 400 South State Street at Van Buren;  Later occupied by Sears Roebuck & Co.;  designated Chicago Landmark 1997
• The Central  Y.M.C.A. Building, 1892-93, 19 S. La Salle Street
• Luddington Building (American Book Company), 1891, 1104 S. Wabash Ave, Chicago Landmark, 1991
  

John O. E. Pridmore

• Bush Temple of Music, Completed 1901 Located on the corners of Clark Street and Chicago
  

Henry Hobson Richardson

• Marshall Field Wholesale Store, 1885-87, block bounded by Adams, Wells, Quincy and Franklin Streets, demolished in 1930.

Theodore Starrett

• Hyde Park Hotel, 1887-88, 1891, southwest corner of Hyde Park Boulevard and  Lake Park   Avenue; demolished in 1963.

• Montgomery Ward Warehouse, 1906-8

• The Public Library, 1892
• The Art Institute (the second one), 1892

• Brewster Apartments, 1893, northwest corner of Diversey Boulevard and Pine Grove Ave.

Clinton  J. Warren

• Virginia Hotel,  1889-90, formerly Leander McCormick Apartments, at intersection of Ohio    and Rush Streets; demolished in 1929.
• Metropole Hotel, 1891, northeast corner of Michigan Ave. and 23rd Street
• Michigan Hotel, 1891-92, northeast corner of Michigan Ave. and Cermak Road.
• Plaza Hotel, 1892, 1553 Clark Street.
• Congress Hotel, 1892-93 (Holabird and Roche- 1902, 1907), 504 South Michigan Ave.

• Delaware Building, 36 W. Randolph St., 1872-74 (Chicago Landmark)
  
• Haskell-Barker-Atwater Buildings, 18, 22, 28 S. Wabash Ave., 1875-77 (Chicago Landmark)

• Hotel St. Benedict Flats,  40-52 E. Chicago Ave., 1882-83 (Chicago Landmark)
  

• Old City Hall, completed 1885

McKim, Mead and White

• Lathrop House, 120 E. Bellevue Pl., 1892, (Chicago Landmark, 1973)
  

Burling and Whitehouse

• Nickerson House, 40 E. Erie St, 1883, Chicago Landmark 1977

• St. Ignatius College Prep Building, 1076 W. Roosevelt Road, 1869; west addition 1874 (Chicago Landmark 1987)

• Thalia Hall, 1215-25 W. 18th St.,  1892, Chicago Landmark 1989

• Unity Hall, aka Lakeside Club, 3140 S. Indiana Ave., 1887, Chicago Landmark, 1998

• Yondorf  Block and Hall, 758 W. North Ave, 1887.  Designated Chicago Landmark 2001.

• Yale Apartments, 6565 S. Yale Ave, 1892-1893 (Chicago Landmark 2003)

•  The Chicago School of Architecture, A History of Commercial and Public Building in the Chicago Area, 1875-1925, by Carl W. Condit, published 1964
• Louis Sullivan, His Life and Work, by Robert Twombly
• The Architecture of John Wellborn Root, by Donald Hoffmann
• Chicago's Famous Buildings, by Arthur Siegel, 1969
• Burnham of Chicago, by Thomas S. Hines, 1979
• Chicago Street Guide, published by Rand McNally, 1941
• Lost Chicago, by David Low, American Legacy Press- 1975   (through the notes of John Hub and David Daruszka)
• History of the Development of Building Construction in Chicago, by Frank A. Randall, University of Illinois Press  (notes of David Daruszka)
• The Devil In The White City, by Erik Larson, 2003
• Chicago, A Personal History of Aremica's Most American City, by Finis Farr, 1973

• Chicago Public Library
• University of Illinois Image Database
• Encyclopedia of Chicago - Chicago History
• Chicago Landmarks
• Architecture In Chicago, Illinois
• Emporis.Com
  

I have never been to Illinois (I live near Atlanta, GA), and have only become interested in 19th Century Chicago architects through my collecting vintage Chicago postcards, and my subsequent love affair with 19th century and early 20th century Chicago.  If you find an errors in this information, kindly let me know and I will add a postscript.  I have found several items which are confusing to  me.  Many buildings erected in the 1880's were replaced by 1912, so there may be existing postcards for two different buildings of the same name.  Some buildings had many "lives" and many names over the years. Whenever possible, I compare with an actual photograph or lithograph of the building.  

Pat Sabin