The steel needed to support the Home Insurance Building weighed only one-third as much as a ten-story building made of heavy masonry. In his designs, he used metal columns and beams, instead of stone and brick to support the building's upper levels. It was built from 1884 to 1885, enlarged in 1891, and demolished in 1931. The building was the first fully metal-framed building, and is considered the first skyscraper. Jenney is best known for designing the ten-story Home Insurance Building in Chicago. In 1998, Jenney was ranked number 89 in the book 1,000 Years, 1,000 People: Ranking the Men and Women Who Shaped the Millennium. After Jenney's death, his ashes were scattered over his wife's grave, just south of the Eternal Silence section of Uptown's Graceland Cemetery. He died in Los Angeles, California, on June 15, 1907. He also designed the Horticultural Building for the World's Columbian Exposition (1893) held in Chicago. In Chicago he designed the Ludington Building and Manhattan building, both built in 1891 and National Historic Landmarks. He served as first Vice President from 1898 to 1899. Jenney was elected an Associate of the American Institute of Architects in 1872, and became a Fellow in 1885. They had two children named Max and Francis. On May 8, 1867, Jenney and Elizabeth "Lizzie" Hannah Cobb, from Cleveland, Ohio were married. In later years future leaders of the Chicago School like Louis Sullivan, Daniel Burnham, William Holabird, and Martin Roche, performed their architectural apprenticeships on Jenney's staff. After the war, in 1867, Jenney moved to Chicago, Illinois and began his own architectural office, which specialized in commercial buildings and urban planning.ĭuring the late 1870s, he commuted weekly to Ann Arbor, Michigan to start and teach in the architecture program at the University of Michigan. By the end of the war, he had become a major, and was Engineer-in-Charge at Nashville's Union headquarters. In 1861, he returned to the US to join the Union Army as an engineer in the Civil War, designing fortifications for Generals Sherman and Grant. He graduated in 1856, one year after his classmate, Gustave Eiffel, the designer of the Eiffel Tower. Jenney began his formal education at Phillips Academy, Andover, in 1846, and at the Lawrence Scientific school at Harvard in 1853, but transferred to École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures (École Centrale Paris) to study engineering and architecture.Īt École Centrale Paris, he learned the latest iron construction techniques as well as the classical functionalist doctrine of Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand (1760-1834) - Professor of Architecture at the Ecole Polytechnique. Jenney was born in Fairhaven, Massachusetts on September 25, 1832, son of William Proctor Jenney and Eliza LeBaron Gibbs.
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