From Conservapedia
Daniel Hudson Burnham (1846-1912) was an American
architect and planner. With his partner John Root he designed some of the earliest
skyscraper buildings in the world (and he was designer of the Flatiron Building in
New York City and the Chicago Masonic Temple Building; constructed 1891-1892); and he designed the layout of the 1893
Chicago World Fair in a neoclassical '
Beaux-Arts' style, influenced by L'Enfant's plan of
Washington and
Baron Haussmann's rebuilding of
Paris, incorporating squares and radiating avenues with large vistas; this had a worldwide impact on city planning. Burnham was to put these ideas to further use in his Plan of Chicago of 1906-09, designed to turn Chicago into "a Paris on the Prarie".
The Chicago Masonic Temple Building, was the tallest skyscraper in the world 1895-1899.
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