Hotel Burnham and a perfect summer

The weather in Chicago has been nothing less than spectacular this summer. Right now it is 81 degrees with no humidity. I shot some cell phone pix by the Hotel Burnham. The cute doorman was nice enough to pose for me. The hotel is named for Daniel Burnham, the architect responsible for Chicago being surrounded by public parkland and green space by the lake for all to enjoy.

Daniel Burnham built this as an office building in 1895; four years after the Columbian Exposition that had him build what is now the Museum of Science and Industry and the Field Museum of Natural History. Originally one of the first office buildings in the loop, it is now a hotel, on the corner of Washington and State Streets, near the Marshall Fields clock.

Close up of gingerbread












I was standing in front of the Hotel Burnham and saw this building and clouds reflected in the building across the street, on the north side of Washington Street, at State Street.