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| Essential
Architecture- Chicago
Loop North Sexton School |
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architect |
Unknown |
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location |
160 W. Wendell St. |
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date |
1882 |
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style |
Italianate |
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construction |
Brick |
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type |
Education |
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This is one of the city's oldest surviving school buildings and one of its
earliest high schools, built to serve the North Side of Chicago.
Italianate in design, it features the classical details, bracketed
cornice, and elaborate pediment often associated with that style. After
its conversion in 1902 to an elementary school, it was renamed for James
A. Sexton, a manufacturer who also served five years as postmaster of
Chicago. |
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links |
With special thanks to the City of
Chicago website,
www.egov.cityofchicago.org , for much of the info on this page.
Photos copyright City of Chicago. |
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