Daniel Burnham was an American architect and urban planner born in 1846 who designed many famous buildings in his career such as Union Station in Washington D.C. (1908), the Fuller Building (now called the Flatiron Building) in 1902 which was the first skyscraper and tallest building in the world until 1913, and the Masonic Temple Building from 1891-1892 which was his first building designed with John Wellborn Root.