PCAD - Burnham and Root, Architects

Exterior view of the D.O. Mills Building, San Francisco, 1981; from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and Wikimedia Commons

Exterior view of the F.W. Woolworth Department Store that replaced the Fidelity Trust Company Building, Tacoma, WA, 2019. From Google Maps/Street View

Exterior view of the Fidelity Trust Company Building, Tacoma, WA, c. 1890. From the Tacoma Public Library, Historic Building Files, Item #BU-10647

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Daniel Hudson Burnham, John Wellborn Root, Theodore Starrett Sr.

Active 1873-1891

Operated primarily in Chicago, IL, lasting until Root's premature death in 1891;

PCAD id: 1217

Buildings and other works

Name	Date	City	State
Chronicle Publishing Company, San Francisco Chronicle Office Building #2, Financial District, San Francisco, CA	1888-1890	San Francisco	CA
Chronicle Publishing Company, San Francisco Chronicle Office Building #3, Financial District, San Francisco, CA	1906-1907	San Francisco	CA
Fidelity Trust Company, Office Building, Downtown, Tacoma, WA	1890	Tacoma	WA
Luzon Building, Tacoma, WA	1891	Tacoma	WA
Mills, Darius Ogden, Building, Financial District, San Francisco, CA	1890-1891	San Francisco	CA
Pacific National Bank of Washington, Office Building #1, Downtown, Tacoma, WA	1890-1891	Tacoma	WA

Publications

Schaffer, Kristen, Rocheleau, Paul, Daniel H. Burnham: Visionary Architect and Planner, 2003. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Guide to Architecture in San Francisco and Northern California, 67, 1985. Hines, Thomas S., "Burnham, Daniel H.", Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects, 1: 353, 1982.

Links

San Francisco Landmark: Old Chronicle Building