Daniel Burnham's Famous Mt. Wilson Observatory in Danger Due to California Wildfires

While it may be Daniel Burnham-palooza here in Chicago right now, the famous architect and urban planner isn’t fairing so well out west. The Mt. Wilson Observatory in Los Angeles, designed by Burnham’s firm in the early 1900s, is in serious jeopardy due to the annual out-of-control California wildfires. Although situations have improved since Monday’s dire predictions that the observatory might immediately become a lost cause and hopes that it will survive have risen, thus far there have only been slowdowns in the fire’s progress, meaning that Burnham’s building is still in harms way.