Henry Ives Cobb

Cobb at­ten­ded the Mas­sa­chu­setts In­sti­tute of Tech­no­logy and Har­vard Uni­ver­sity. After a short ser­vice with Pe­abody & Stearns in Bos­ton, he moved to Chi­cago where he en­ga­ged in a na­ti­onwide prac­tice for many years. He was one of the de­si­gners of the World's Co­lum­bian Ex­po­si­tion in Chi­cago, 1892, and in the same year was ap­poin­ted a spe­cial go­vern­ment ar­chi­tect. Du­ring the ten years' tenure of his of­fice, he de­si­gned the Fe­deral Buil­ding at Chi­cago and the Le­ague Is­land buil­dings at An­na­po­lis. Since 1902 he had re­si­ded in New York. He was one of the first to use steel in the con­struc­tion of tall buil­dings. The Chi­cago Opera House, Chi­cago Ath­le­tic Club, New­berry Li­brary, and the Uni­ver­sity of Chi­cago are among the buil­dings de­si­gned by him.