Daniel Burnham

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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.

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Daniel Burnham canonical 31
Daniel H. Burnham 16
Daniel Hudson Burnham 6

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Predicate Object
instanceOf architect
city planner
human
urban planner
architectOf Chicago Cultural Center
surface form: Chicago Cultural Center (as Chicago Public Library)

Ellicott Square Building (Buffalo)
Field Museum of Natural History
surface form: Field Museum of Natural History (original design for the Columbian Exposition)

Fisher Building (Chicago)
Flatiron Building
Flatiron Building
surface form: 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
surface form: Union Station (Washington, D.C.)

World’s Columbian Exposition
surface form: 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
surface form: Chicago public schools
employer Burnham and Root
Holabird & Roche
surface form: 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
surface form: City Beautiful movement in the United States
influencedBy Beaux-Arts
surface form: 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 Burnham self-linksurface differs
surface form: Daniel Hudson Burnham
notableWork Plan of Baguio
Plan of Chicago
Plan of Manila
City Beautiful movement
surface form: 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
surface form: Heidelberg, Germany
residence Chicago, Illinois, United States
surface form: Chicago
role Director of Works of the World’s Columbian Exposition
sexOrGender male
workLocation Chicago, Illinois, United States
surface form: Chicago

New York City
Washington, D.C.

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The Rookery architect Daniel Burnham
this entity surface form: Daniel H. Burnham
Edward H. Bennett coAuthorWith Daniel Burnham
this entity surface form: Daniel H. Burnham
Edward H. Bennett influencedBy Daniel Burnham
this entity surface form: Daniel H. Burnham