Founders of the World's Fair

• Frederick Law Olmsted, America's foremost landscape architect, was responsible for laying out the fairgrounds.

 

• A distinguished group of architects, including Henry Ives Cobb, Richard Morris Hunt, Charles McKim, George B. Post, and Louis Sullivan designed the exposition's buildings under the supervision of Daniel H. Burnham.
• Sophie Hayden, the first woman awarded a degree in architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), designed the famous Woman's Building.
   

 

 

 Daniel Burhnam