biography
| name: |
Jenney, William Le Baron
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1832–1907)
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| biography:
| Architect and engineer, born in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, USA. He founded the Chicago school of architecture, pioneering the development of steel-frame construction in prototype skyscrapers such as the Home Insurance Building (1884–5). Among his trainees were Louis Sullivan and Daniel Burnham. |
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