{"id":643,"date":"2021-05-19T12:06:48","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T12:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richardcondit.org\/main\/?page_id=643"},"modified":"2025-09-09T14:36:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T14:36:57","slug":"william-le-baron-jenney","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.richardcondit.org\/main\/william-le-baron-jenney\/","title":{"rendered":"William Le Baron Jenney"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>About Jenney<\/h4>\n<p>Several articles, and one book, devoted to Jenney; not intended to be complete. Links lead to full pdfs, except for the French book, which has only a small part available from the publisher.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/conditdatacenter.org\/pdfs\/Turak1970.pdf'>Turak, T. 1970.<\/a> Jenney&#8217;s Lesser Works: Prelude to the Prairie Style. The Prairie School Review, 7: 5-20.<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/conditdatacenter.org\/pdfs\/Turak1970a.pdf'>Turak, T. 1970.<\/a> The \u00c9cole Centrale and Modern Architecture: The Education of William Le Baron Jenney. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 29: 40-47.<\/li>\n<li>Condit, C.W. 1960. Iron Framing. Chap. II in <i>American Building Art, 19th Century<\/i>, Oxford University. Section 4 (pp. 50-63) &#8220;The Chicago School&#8221; is largely about Jenney. <a href='https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/americanbuilding00cond'>Entire book online at the Internet Archive.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Condit, C.W. 1964. Jenney and the New Structural Technique. Chap. IV (pp. 79-94) in <i>Chicago School of Architecture<\/i>, University of Chicago. <a href='https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/chicagoschoolofa0000cond_k8o2'>Entire book online at the Internet Archive.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/conditdatacenter.org\/pdfs\/Turak1985.pdf'>Turak, T. 1985.<\/a> Remembrances of the Home Insurance Building. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 44: 60-65.<\/li>\n<li>Turak, T. 1986. <i>William Le Baron Jenney: a Pioneer of Modern Architecture<\/i>. UMI Research Press, Ann Arbor. <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/williamlebaronje0000tura\">Entire book online at the Internet Archive.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/ClubExpressClubFiles\/11539\/documents\/Notz_--_Jenney.htm?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIA6MYUE6DNNJ6ROIH3&amp;Expires=1757095550&amp;response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DNotz_--_Jenney.htm&amp;Signature=xkGFE%2BG7CthCY2ptJ0cQfzMXspU%3D\">Notz, J. 2007.<\/a> A Memoir by William Le Baron Jenney: A man for all seasons. Chicago Literary Club [presented at Club, Jan 2007].<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/buildingtheskyline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Barr_Revisiting-Jenney_WP_20June24.pdf\">Barr, J. 2024.<\/a> The People v. Jenney: Revisiting the Debate about the First Skyscraper. International Journal of High-Rise Buildings, 13: 1-9.<\/li>\n<li>Belhoste, J.F. and I. Parizet. 2024. <i>L&#8217;Invention du Gratte Ciel: William Le Baron Jenney \u00e1 Chicaco<\/i>. L&#8217;Harmattan, Paris. <a href=\"https:\/\/liseuse.harmattan.fr\/9782379990311\">Short selection from publisher.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/conditdatacenter.org\/pdfs\/Leslie2025.pdf'>Leslie, T. 2024.<\/a> &#8216;A Purely Practical Science:&#8217; William Le Baron Jenney\u2019s Contribution to American Building Culture. Pp. 639-660 in Parizet and Belhoste (2024). [T. Leslie kindly provided this English version.]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Jenney&#8217;s Writings<\/h4>\n<p>Taken from Turak (1986), Notz (2007), and <i>The Chicago Architectural Club<\/i> (W.R. Hasbrouck, 2005, Monicelli). There is a link to a pdf of Loring and Jenney (1869), but I have not located archives for the articles (mostly in Inland Architect). To be added: several from Leslie (2024).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Illustration of a Single Residence. <i>Building News<\/i> (Sep 18, 1868).<\/li>\n<li>Illustration of Two Residences. <i>American Builder and Journal of Art<\/i> (October 15, 1869).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/conditdatacenter.org\/pdfs\/LoringJenney1869.pdf\"><i>Principles and Practice of Architecture<\/i>.<\/a> Cobb, Pritchard and Co., 1869 (S. E. Loring is first author).<\/li>\n<li>Lectures on Architecture. <i>Inland Architect<\/i> 1 (1883-1884): 18, 33ff. (Also presented at The Art Institute of Chicago.)<\/li>\n<li>A City Residence. <i>Inland Architect<\/i> (1884) 2:100.<\/li>\n<li>A Reform in Suburban Dwellings. <i>Inland Architect<\/i> 1 (1882): 2-3.<\/li>\n<li>Construction of a Heavy Fireproof Building on Compressible Soil. <i>Engineering Record, Building Record and the Sanitary Engineer<\/i> (1885).<\/li>\n<li>Evolution of Style (Presented at Chicago Architectural Sketch Club, March 1888).<\/li>\n<li>A Few Practical Hints. <i>Inland Architect<\/i> 13 (1889): 8-9.<\/li>\n<li>The Age of Steel and Clay. <i>Inland Architect (1889), Vol. XVI, at p. 77.<\/li>\n<li>A Few Practical Hints. Inland Architect<\/i> 85 (1889). (Also presented at Chicago Architectural Sketch Club, Jan 1889.)<\/li>\n<li>Steel in Building Construction. <i>Inland Architect<\/i> (1890). (Also presented at Chicago Architectural Sketch Club, Oct 1890).<\/li>\n<li>American and Foreign Structural Steel. <i>Inland Architect<\/i> 15 (1890): 77.<\/li>\n<li>Chicago Construction of Tall Buildings on Compressible Soil. <i>Inland Architect<\/i> 6 (1891): 100<\/li>\n<li>A Talk on Architecture at the World&#8217;s Columbian Exposition. <i>Inland Architect<\/i> 21 (1893): 34-35.\n<li>Whistler and Old Sandy in the Fifties. <i>American Architect and Building News<\/i> 9 (1898): 4-5.<\/li>\n<li>A Remarkable Dwelling. <i>Inland Architect<\/i> 47 (1906): 57-58.<\/li>\n<li>Autobiography. <i>Western Architect<\/i> 10 (1907): 59-66<\/li>\n<li>Scrapbook, in Chicago Microfilm Project of The Art Institute of Chicago (no date).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Jenney Several articles, and one book, devoted to Jenney; not intended to be complete. Links lead to full pdfs, except for the French book, which has only a small <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.richardcondit.org\/main\/william-le-baron-jenney\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-643","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richardcondit.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richardcondit.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richardcondit.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richardcondit.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richardcondit.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":55,"href":"https:\/\/www.richardcondit.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":748,"href":"https:\/\/www.richardcondit.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/643\/revisions\/748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richardcondit.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}