biography
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Root, John Wellborn
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| male
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| lived:
| (1850–91)
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| biography:
| Architect, born in Lumpkin, Georgia, USA. The primary designer in a partnership with Daniel H Burnham (1873–91), he designed innovative iron- and steel-framed Chicago skyscrapers that shaped the Chicago School of architecture in the 1880s. |
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