Daniel Hudson Burnham, F.A.I.A. - An architect, died in
Heidelberg, Germany, June 1, 1912. He was born in Henderson, New York, September 4, 1846,
and when ten years old was taken to Chicago where he spent the greater part of his life.
He was the chief of construction and director of works of the World's Fair in Chicago in
1893. He designed many prominent buildings in New York and Chicago, and when San Francisco
was devastated by the earthquake he was called to direct the laying out of the new city.
He held honorary degrees from our prominent universities, was a fellow and twice president
of the American Institute of Architects, and a member of the National Institute of Arts
and Letters, and chairman of the Federal Commission of Fine Arts. He was awarded a bronze
medal at the Paris Exposition in 1900 and a gold medal at the St. Louis Exposition in
1904.
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