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Landmark This! Lakeview Church, Chicago from an article by Lynn Becker submitted by David Murad ’96 When the recently renovated Lake View Presbyterian is one of only a handful of buildings that remain from the fabled partnership of Daniel Burnham and his chief designer, John Wellborn Root. In the 30s the original wood shingles were covered with cheap white shingle siding that obscured the beauty of Root’s original design....
The colors of the original were rich—Root wrote of “the right of color to be recognized as an independent art”—though determining exactly what they’d been required some detective work. A consultant analyzed 60 old paint samples under a microscope and came up with a palette of five basic colors, from a brick red on the main body of the church and roof to a jute brown on the arches, windows, and doors. The restoration is a revelation....And decades before Mies van der Rohe proclaimed it, Root knew that God is in the details....
David Murad is director of social services at Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago, and a parish associate at
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