1874 for John B. Sherman, the businessman and organizer of the Union Stock Yards. Many other residential commissions followed including the Edward Ayer House (1886) and Reginald DeKoven House (1890) (Glassman, 135). In their residential designs Burnham and Root were attracted to the Queen Anne idiom and to Romanesque Revival in their small public building (Glassman, 135). Burnham and Root followed loosely ideas by R. Norman Shaw, and H. H. Richardson (Hines, "Daniel" 353). Burnham and Root selectively "borrowed" from different eras and traditions but hardly let these other styles dominate their own developing synthesis (Hines, "Daniel" 353). Though their house designs never made adequate division from the past to signal any revolution in house design, Burnham and Root's smaller work, "in its inexorable trend toward greater simplicity, marked both the end of an older order and, in several late house!
             s, a transition to the work of Frank Lloyd Wright and his contemporaries" (Hi
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