Publisher's Synopsis
After much deliberation on the size and style of the museum's new home, construction began in 1915 on a new building at a site near Grant Park. The building, designed by architect Peirce Anderson of Graham, Anderson, Probst, and White, cost $7 million to build and was part of Daniel Burnham's 1909 Plan of Chicago.
This book traces those decisions and includes, in-depth, the 1911 plans to build the Field Museum in Jackson Park and the 1911 negotiations to build on new land just south of Grant Park. A central question is whether or not the 1911 plans to build in Jackson Park was a serious solution or a holding plan while the South Park Commissioners negotiated with the Illinois Central railroad for rights to the 12th Street location.
