Peter Bonnett Wight (1838-1925)
Peter Bonnett Wight Papers
INV-2623
Peter Bonnett Wight (1838-1925)1863-1915
Peter Bonnett Wight Papers
Peter Bonnett Wight (1838-1925) →archival material
Date
1863-1915
Medium
Manuscript, typescript papers, black and white photographic prints, and printed papers.
Dimensions
W.: 15.3 cm (6 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Anna Meeker, 1925 and n.d.
Peter B. Wight’s architectural career flourished in the 1860s and 1870s in New York, where he developed a decorative, historicist style that showed affinities to the work of European designers John Ruskin and A W. N. Pugin. Immediately after the devastating Chicago fire of 1871, Wight came to Chicago and entered a successful architectural partnership. An interest in modern technologies for fireproof construction led Wight to found the Wight Fireproofing Co. by 1881, which designed and manufactured hollow terra cotta tiles-impervious to fire and non-heat conductive, for construction. This collection contains manuscripts for lectures and publications.
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