Franklin Pierce Burnham

Franklin Burnham was educated at Old Moseley School in Chicago before working in the architectural offices of J. H. Barrows when he was fourteen.

One of his commissions, with Chicago architect Willoughby J. Edbrooke, was for the Wesley Avenue School at the University of Notre Dame in 1879.

It was in Atlanta that Edbrooke & Burnham would receive their most notable commission a few years later—the Georgia State Capitol.

The Renaissance and Classical Revival design submitted by Edbrooke & Burnham was announced as the winner, and the cornerstone was dedicated on September 2, 1885.

Edbrooke & Burnham's 7th District Police Station, built in Chicago in 1888, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1996.

Kenilworth, Illinois was a planned community by Joseph Sears, who sought to develop a Chicago suburb with large lots and high standards of construction.

Burnham assumed all responsibility for the practice after Edbrooke was appointed Supervising Architect of the Treasury in 1891.

The apartment building held almost five hundred residents, and was designed in an unusual U-shape that allowed for a central courtyard.

Franklin Pierce Burnham died suddenly in California on December 16, 1909, while visiting a bank.