The Devil in the White City Timeline

By Jmathew

  • Burnham's family moved to Chicago

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    The Devil in the White City TImeline

  • Burnham fails entrance exams to Harvard and Yale

  • Great Fire of 1871

  • Burnham's father introduced him to an architect named Peter Wight

  • Burnham & Root became partners and started making profit.

  • John B. Sherman Commissioned Burnham and Root to build him a mansion

  • Daniel Burnham and Margaret Sherman Married.

  • Mudgett (Holmes) married Clara Loverling

  • Root married Mary Walker.

  • Mary Walker Root died of tuberculosis

  • Root married Dora Monroe

  • Peter Brooks III commisioned Burnham & Root to build the first skyscraper

  • Mudgett (Holmes) enrolled in medical school

  • Holmes (Mudget) married Myrta Belknap

  • Holmes bought the land that he bought in front of his original store

  • The Paris Exposition

  • Mayor calls for committe.

    The committe consisted of chicago's more prominent men to get the colombian exposition.

  • Chicago becomes second largest city in U.S.

  • Chicago was given the Colombian Exposition

  • The Exposition company formally hired Olmstead

  • An economic recession in the U.S. jeopordized the fair.

  • The Exposition company commissioned the main architects for the fair

  • Carter Henry Harrison lost the mayor election.

  • The great eastern architects traveled to Jackson Park to see the site for the fair.

  • Ned Conner started working for Holmes

  • John Root died of pneumonia.

  • Construcion for the fair began.

  • The building designs for the fair were revealed.