DANIEL BURNHAM. The Conway Building

The first clue would be the Y. The junction of the North Branch, the South, and the final flow of the Chicago River to (uh) from Lake Michigan. Another would be the Lion, just in shadow. The Fleur de Lis. And Sainte Genevieve, the Patron Sainte of Paris.
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It could be no place else but Chicago. Late tens or early teens. Paris on the Lake. With the ink barely dry on Burnham's 1909 Plan of Chicago.

This is the Conway Building, 111 West Washington Street, named for its Developer's home town, Conway, Massachusetts. Designed by D.H.Burnham and Company's Frederick Dinkelberg (with flourishes by its lead designer, Peirce Anderson) (Paris Ecole Peirce) for Marshall Field, this building has all the components of Daniel Burnham's very successful skyscrapers, including thoughtful planning, originality and some Beaux Arts experimentation.

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