North Shore Chicago: Houses of the Lakefront Suburbs, 1890-1940

by Stuart Earl Cohen, Susan Benjamin

Illustrated with over 350 duotone photographs and floor plans, many published here for the first time, North Shore Chicago recounts the stories of Chicago s great industrial and merchant families including the Armours, Donnelleys, and McCormics and their creative interaction with both the region s leading architects David Adler, Daniel Burnham, Howard Van Doren Shaw, and Frank Lloyd Wright and their national counterparts Delano & Aldrich, Harrie Lindeberg, and Charles Platt. Their collaboration produced some of the finest examples of American residential architecture

336 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 2004

Reviews

[Chris Breitenbach]

Coffee table local history, now out of print, so thankful my library had it. Been slowly exploring North Shore neighborhoods this past spring, smitten by the big old, impeccably preserved pre-WWI homes and the mid-century moderns.