John Wellborn Root (January 10, 1850 – January 15, 1891) was an American architect who was based in Chicago with Daniel Burnham. He was one of the founders of the Chicago School style.

2025年1月11日 · John Wellborn Root was an architect, one of the greatest practitioners in the Chicago school of commercial American architecture. His works are among the most distinguished early attempts at a mature aesthetic expression …

Burnham and Root was one of Chicago 's most famous architectural companies of the nineteenth century. It was established by Daniel Hudson Burnham and John Wellborn Root. During their eighteen years of partnership, Burnham and Root designed and built …

2002年7月30日 · The architect John Wellborn Root, a Georgia native, became one of the key figures in the nationally significant Chicago school of skyscraper design. He designed one of the most significant buildings in Atlanta, the Equitable Building. Root was born in Lumpkin in 1850 and grew up in Atlanta.

John Wellborn Root Jr. (July 14, 1887 – October 24, 1963) was a significant United States architect based in Chicago. He was the son of architect John Wellborn Root.

In the decades after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, Daniel Burnham and John Wellborn Root changed the character and aesthetics of architecture in Chicago. The two met while working as apprentices at the Chicago architecture firm of Carter, Drake, and Wight.

2021年9月18日 · John Wellborn Root was a brilliant, original and thoroughly delightful man. Although he was clearly among the greatest architects in Chicago history, his talents swept in every direction throughout the visual arts and music.

2020年5月6日 · Root, John Wellborn, 1850-1891, Root, John Wellborn, 1850-1891 Publisher Park Forest, Ill., Prairie School Press Collection internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English Item Size 667.0M . xxii, 291 pages 23 cm Originally published in 1896

A partner with Daniel Burnham in the firm of Burnham & Root, John Wellborn Root was instrumental in the design of dozens of important Chicago buildings, including the Rookery, the Monadnock Building and the Masonic Temple.

2018年5月21日 · John Wellborn Root (1850-1891) lent his name and artistic genius to one of nineteenth-century America's most famed architectural firms, Burnham and Root. Their Chicago office designed and built some of the tallest commercial buildings in the world.