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| Essential
Architecture- Chicago
Loop North Cable House |
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architect |
Cobb and Frost |
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location |
25 E. Erie St. |
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date |
1886 |
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style |
Richardsonian Romanesque |
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construction |
Stone |
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type |
House |
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Designed in the Richardsonian
Romanesque style by an eminent architectural partnership, this house
was built for Ransom R. Cable, the president of the Chicago, Rock Island
and Pacific Railway Company. The Cable House is among only a few remaining structures that illustrate the original elite residential character of the area just west of North Michigan Avenue. |
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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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