The Inland architect and news record
The Inland Architect and News Record is a Chicago architectural trade periodical published by the Inland Publishing Company around 1887, for architects and builders. Its pages here show photographic plates of commercial and residential buildings, with a Pittsburgh station hotel and an St. Louis residence shown alongside floor plans. A designer might take from them the strong masonry massing of the Chicago office block, the rounded corner tower with its dome, and the clean plan drawings beside the residence photograph as models for layout and facade hierarchy.
