Daniel Burnham

shows the stories of two different people during the time of the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago, one man being Daniel Burnham, and the other was Holmes. For my project I focused more on H.H. Holmes due to myself having more interest in using him for my project. Burnham was important because…

them to each other. The book is third person omniscient feature the two characters known as Daniel Burnham and H.H Holmes. Their stories are separated by each chapter through out the book. Larson uses many quotes and sayings from the actual individuals dairies, or he uses old news paper articles to make the story vivid.…

City follows the exploits of two men with radically different lives, yet they still bare similarities to one another. The first is Daniel Burnham, the architect challenged with the task of making the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago stand out with an attraction to rival the Eiffel tower. The second central character, and serving as the other side of the coin to Burnham, is Dr. H.H. Holmes; a career criminal, pharmacist and serial killer who designed elaborate traps and mechanisms designed to…

“I was born with the devil in me. I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing” (Larson 109.) In the book, The Devil in the White City, Burnham, an architect, is having many different struggles in building the World’s Fair by opening day, but after the many struggles he ends up making the fair a dreamland. At the same time, Holmes, the first serial killer, is luring young women into his hotel and killing them without getting caught;…

100,000 persons homeless. Known to be one of the largest natural disasters of the 19th century Chicago was able to rebuild itself all thanks to resources made possible as result of the Gilded Age. The expansion of the economy made it possible for Burnham to use an abundance of new goods and services to build the best possible fair. One result of these goods and services was the Ferris Wheel. The Ferris Wheel, one of the main attractions to the fair, was the first one ever built. The Ferris Wheel…

killer. For that reason, this book is my favorite. In the year of 1890, the fast-growing city of Chicago won the bid to host the next World's Fair. In eager excitement to begin the project, two of the city's top architects were chosen to lead: Daniel Burnham and John Root. As the construction of the buildings for the fair began, a handsome doctor, H.H. Holmes, moved to…

The Devil In The White City Essay #1 The majority of people will realize this book is different after just reading the first two chapters of The Devil in The White City. Rather you find out the book is being told from two stories being jumped back in forth between two totally different men in chicago during the world fair, or the interruptions of flashbacks, and little details you come across from Erik Larson's own research. This sounding like chaos Larson still has his book set up with a…

long and brutal process since it had to be completed in a short about of time. Daniel H. Burnham, one of Chicago’s talented architects, was the exposition’s director of works. Him and his team of architects designed the World’s Fair from scratch and it needed to be finished by opening day. Of course, many obstacles got in the way, making it very difficult to complete the project. Although obstacles got in the way, Burnham never gave up and had faith that it would be ready by May 1, 1893 (Larson,…

, New York, is a structure of impeccable example to “form follows function” - Louis Sullivan. It is from utility that beauty is a result in its concepts. The distinctive triangular shape of the Flatiron Building, designed by Chicago architect Daniel Burnham and built in 1902, allowed it to fill the wedge-shaped property located at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Broadway (History.com, 2010). As this divided the street in its placement, it allowed the efficient arrangement of space by its…

Chicago in 1893: Bright City, Dark Menace In the historical novel “The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America,” author Erik Larson portrays Chicago as both the city of opportunity and simultaneously as a hotbed of crime and human exploitation (Larson). Chicago in the 1890’s was quite rough because jobs and murders have made the city a place of both danger and opportunity. Numerous murders have led to turmoil in the city. In addition, the changes that…