Daniel Burnham

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architect city planner human urban planner

Daniel Burnham was a prominent American architect and urban planner of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for leading the design of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition and shaping the City Beautiful movement.

Aliases (2)

Daniel H. Burnham ×7
Daniel Hudson Burnham ×2

Statements (58)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	architect → city planner → human → urban planner →
architectOf	Chicago Cultural Center (as Chicago Public Library) → Ellicott Square Building (Buffalo) → Field Museum of Natural History (original design for the Columbian Exposition) → Fisher Building (Chicago) → Flatiron Building → Fuller Building (Flatiron Building) in New York City → Merchandise Mart preliminary concepts → Monadnock Building → People’s Gas Building (Chicago) → Railway Exchange Building (Chicago) → Reliance Building → Rookery Building remodeling → Santa Fe Building (Chicago) → Union Station (Pittsburgh) → Union Station (Washington, D.C.) → World’s Columbian Exposition master plan →
authorOf	Plan of Chicago →
burialPlace	Graceland Cemetery →
coFounderOf	Burnham and Root →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1846-09-04 →
dateOfDeath	1912-06-01 →
educatedAt	Chicago public schools →
employer	Burnham and Root → D. H. Burnham & Company →
familyName	Burnham →
givenName	Daniel →
hasMotto	Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood. →
influenced	American urban planning → City Beautiful movement in the United States →
influencedBy	Beaux-Arts architecture → neoclassical architecture →
knownFor	leading the design of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition → pioneering comprehensive city plans → shaping the City Beautiful movement →
movement	City Beautiful movement →
name	Daniel Hudson Burnham →
notableWork	Plan of Baguio → Plan of Chicago → Plan of Manila → Plan of Washington, D.C. improvements → World’s Columbian Exposition →
occupation	architect → city planner → urban planner →
placeOfBirth	Henderson, New York → United States of America →
placeOfDeath	Heidelberg, Germany →
residence	Chicago →
role	Director of Works of the World’s Columbian Exposition →
sexOrGender	male →
workLocation	Chicago → New York City → Washington, D.C. →

Referenced by (31)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Fisher Building (Chicago) ("Daniel H. Burnham") → Flatiron Building → People’s Gas Building (Chicago) → Plan of Baguio → Plan of Manila → Reliance Building ("Daniel H. Burnham") → Union Station (Washington, D.C.) →	architect
Plan of Baguio → Plan of Chicago ("Daniel H. Burnham") → Plan of Chicago →	author
Administration Building of the World’s Columbian Exposition → Railway Exchange Building (Chicago) →	associatedWith
Graceland Cemetery →	burialPlaceOf
World’s Columbian Exposition →	chiefPlanner
Plan of Baguio →	cityPlanner
Santa Fe Building (Chicago) ("Daniel H. Burnham") →	designedBy
Burnham Park →	followsPlanBy
Burnham and Root ("Daniel H. Burnham") →	foundedBy
Burnham and Root →	founder
Daniel Burnham ("Daniel Hudson Burnham") →	fullName
Burnham →	hasNotableBearer
Graceland Cemetery →	hasNotableBurial
Chicago School architecture →	hasNotablePractitioner
Burnham and Root ("Daniel H. Burnham") →	hasPartner
World’s Columbian Exposition design team →	headArchitect
Graham, Anderson, Probst & White →	influencedBy
World’s Columbian Exposition design team →	member
Daniel Burnham ("Daniel Hudson Burnham") →	name
Burnham Park →	namedAfter
The Rookery Building ("Daniel H. Burnham") →	originalArchitect
Plan of Manila →	proposedBy