Images of Reliance Building, Burnham and Atwood, Chicago, 1894-5. Digital Imaging Project: Art historical images of European and North American architecture and sculpture from classical Greek to Post-modern. Scanned from slides taken on site by Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College.

Reliance Building

Daniel H. Burnham and Charles B. Atwood
1894-5

This 15-story building, with glazed white terra cotta tiles, prefigures twentieth century skyscrapers because of its openness and use of large panes of glass.

Detail of the shaft and of the top

Other Burnham buildings on this site include: the Frick Building, Merchant's Exchange Building, details of the Monadnock Building, the Pittsburgh Union Station, and the Rookery.

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This 15-story building, with glazed white terra cotta tiles, prefigures twentieth century skyscrapers because of its openness and use of large panes of glass.


Detail of the shaft and of the top