The first authoritative study of Chicago's city houses, portraying a private world of midwestern splendor.

The suburban residential area running north above Chicago along

The first survey of the classic twentieth-century houses that defined American Midwestern modernism. Famed as the birthplace of that icon of twentieth-century a

With anecdotes about the owners brightening the survey of the mansions, their construction, and architectural features, this text contains 43 entries, each illu

On Lake Michigan's North Shore, an extraordinary group of cosmopolitan and wealthy clients commissioned havens from the city's bustle during the Gilded Age.