(Virtually) Meet the Author - Neil Harris, Chicago Apartments: A Century of Lakefront Luxury

Thursday, May 20, 2021

This virtual program will be presented on Zoom. A registration link will be provided after ticket purchase. The program will be available to view until May 30.

The ribbon of high-rise luxury apartment buildings along Chicago’s Lake Michigan shore has few, if any, rivals nationwide for sustained architectural significance. Spanning more than a century of architectural and urban history Neil Harris’ book, Chicago Apartments: A Century and Beyond of Lakefront Luxury, examines each dwellings’ special combination of design choice, floor plans, and background story.

This program will feature a conversational tour through the history and architecture of some of the Windy City’s most magnificent abodes followed by Q & A.

Signed copies of the book are available for purchase through the Museum Store.

Neil Harris is the Preston and Sterling Morton Professor Emeritus of History and Art History at the University of Chicago, where he taught for 39 years. Harris has published widely on a variety of subjects - The Artist in American Society; Humbug: The Art of P. T. Barnum; Cultural Excursions; Building Lives; and The Chicagoan are among his books. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a former holder of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Getty Scholar, and has served on a series of institutional boards and committees. Of course, he is also the author, with the assistance of Teri Edelstein, of Chicago Apartments: A Century and Beyond of Lakefront Luxury.


Top image: Gold Coast, Lake Shore Drive Looking North, Chicago, Illinois, c.1930. Courtesy of the Newberry Library, Grant Schmalgemeier Century of Progress Collection.