Daniel Hudson Burnham and John Wellborn Root were partners in the Chicago architectural firm that bore their names. Together they designed a number of influential buildings, notably the Rookery and Monadnock Buildings in Chicago in the late 1880s and early 1890s. Their firm designed three downtown Cleveland buildings: The Society for Savings Building, Western Reserve Building, and Cuyahoga Building. The latter was demolished for the Standard Oil (later BP) Building in the 1980s, but its entrance was preserved and incorporated into the Cleveland History Center's Western Reserve Historical Society Library. After Root's death, Burnham continued to design buildings and gained further renown for his work on the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, which led him to be commissioned to design a number of city plans, including the one for Cleveland's Group Plan in 1903. Burnham also returned to Cleveland twice more to design the Pennsylvania Railroad Station at Euclid and East 55th (demolished; some stonework was incorporated into a wall outside the Rockefeller Greenhouse) and the May Company on Public Square, which survives as apartments today. | Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-37303), via Wikimedia CommonsDownload Original File
