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Burnham   /bˈərnəm/  /bˈərnhæm/   Listen
Burnham

noun
1.
United States architect who designed the first important skyscraper with a skeleton (1846-1912).  Synonym: Daniel Hudson Burnham.






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"Burnham" Quotes from Famous Books



... she knew that the Rev. Mr. Ford could be relied on to pray until aunt Becky Burnham should twitch him by the coat tails. She had done it more than once. She had also, on one occasion, got up and straightened his ministerial neckerchief, which he had gradually "prayed" around his saintly neck until it was behind ...
— The Village Watch-Tower • (AKA Kate Douglas Riggs) Kate Douglas Wiggin

... in 1868, before the Essayons Club, at Willett's Point, N.Y., by Captain A.H. Burnham, U.S. Engineers, it is stated that there were three VII-and VIII-inch rifles in this battery. If this is correct, they had probably been moved from the barbette of ...
— The Gulf and Inland Waters - The Navy in the Civil War. Volume 3. • A. T. Mahan



Words linked to "Burnham" :   designer, architect



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