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    John Wellborn Root (January 10, 1850 – January 15, 1891) was an American architect who was based in Chicago with Daniel Burnham. He was one of the founders...
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  • John Wellborn Root Jr. (July 14, 1887 – October 24, 1963) was a significant United States architect based in Chicago. He was the son of architect John...
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  • John Wellborn Root (1850–1891), U.S. architect John Wellborn Root Jr. (1887–1963), U.S. architect All pages with titles beginning with John Wellborn All...
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  • Look up wellborn in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wellborn may refer to: Wellborn, Coffee County, Alabama, United States Wellborn, Florida, an unincorporated...
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    established by Daniel Hudson Burnham and John Wellborn Root. During their eighteen years of partnership, Burnham and Root designed and built residential and commercial...
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    Rookery Building (category Burnham and Root buildings)
    Chicago Loop. Completed by architects Daniel Burnham and John Wellborn Root of Burnham and Root in 1888, it is considered one of their masterpiece buildings...
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  • John B. Root (born 1958), French pornographic filmmaker Joseph Pomeroy Root (1826–1885), American doctor, politician, and diplomat John Wellborn Root...
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  • wet soil of Chicago in the 19th century, when it was developed by John Wellborn Root who came up with the idea of interlacing the concrete slab with steel...
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    Roche died in 1927. Holabird's son John took over the firm with John Wellborn Root Jr., and it was renamed Holabird & Root. William's sister, Agnes Holabird...
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  • League John B. Root (born 1958, as Jean Guilloré), French porn director John Henry Haines Root (1908–1991), Canadian politician John Wellborn Root Sr. (1850–1891)...
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    Literary Hall of Fame. Monroe was the sister-in-law of Chicago architect John Wellborn Root, and wrote his biography. cantata for the opening of the Chicago Auditorium...
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    333 North Michigan (category Projects by Holabird & Root)
    Designed by John Wellborn Root Jr., the building's long and narrow footprint and towering structure are a tribute to Root's father John Wellborn Root's earlier...
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    by John Wellborn Root Sr. and Daniel Burnham, was built from 1882 to 1883 using structural steel. Daniel Burnham and his partners, John Welborn Root and...
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    both firms from Detroit Edward J. Lennox, Toronto-based architect; John Wellborn Root, in Chicago Harvey Ellis, in Minneapolis Theodore Link, in St. Louis...
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    of the Chicago Columbian Exposition was predominantly designed by John Wellborn Root, Daniel Burnham, Frederick Law Olmsted, and Charles B. Atwood. It...
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    the firm was renamed Holabird & Root. The new firm was run by Holabird's son John Augur Holabird and John Wellborn Root Jr., who had both joined back in...
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    Montauk Building (category Burnham and Root buildings)
    Block – was a high-rise building in Chicago, Illinois. Designed by John Wellborn Root Sr. and Daniel Burnham, it was built in 1882–1883, and was demolished...
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    Retired NFL Linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Birthplace of John Wellborn Root, American architect and key figure in Chicago School of design Birthplace...
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  • (1879–1965) John A. Roebling (1806–1869) Isaiah Rogers (1800–1869) James Gamble Rogers (1867–1947) John Wellborn Root (1850–1891) John Wellborn Root Jr. (1887–1963)...
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    Chicago's architect and planner, Daniel H. Burnham, with his partner John Wellborn Root, laid out the fairgrounds. A team of architects and sculptors created...
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    Rohe (Germany-U.S.) 1959: Walter Adolph Gropius (Germany-U.S.) 1958: John Wellborn Root (Posthumous) (U.S.) 1957: Ralph Walker (U.S.) (Awarded as the Centennial...
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    Society for Savings Building (category Burnham and Root buildings)
    the state of Ohio. It was designed by John Wellborn Root of the Chicago-based architectural firm Burnham & Root. The Society for Savings Building was...
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    including his older brother, John Wellborn Root. During the American Civil War Sidney Root supported secession. Root's role in aiding the confederacy...
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    editor Hermann Raster, newspaper editor, politician and abolitionist John Wellborn Root, architect Howard Van Doren Shaw, architect Washington Smith, pioneer...
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    Daniel Burnham and John Wellborn Root. Root was one of the builders of the Monadnock Building (see above). That and another Root design, the Masonic...
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    "John Wellborn Root". Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Archived from the original on November 12, 2013. Retrieved November 12, 2013. "John Wellborn Root Jr"...
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  • (1929–1950) Michael B. Polk – Class of 1982 – CEO of Newell Brands John Wellborn Root Jr. – Class of 1909 – architect of Chicago Board of Trade and Chicago...
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    architect John Wellborn Root who came to Liverpool when 16 Cook Street was being constructed. For example, in the Rookery Building, Chicago, Root used a...
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    Missouri. The William Chick Scarritt House was designed in 1888 by John Wellborn Root in a Châteauesque style. It was built for lawyer William Chick Scarritt...
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  • theosophist, founded the United Lodge of Theosophists (d. 1919) 1850 – John Wellborn Root, American architect, designed the Rookery Building and Monadnock Building...
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