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Essential Architecture- Chicago
Loop North Seven Houses on Lake Shore Drive District |
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architect |
Various |
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location |
1250-60 and 1516-30 N. Lake Shore Dr. |
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date |
1889-1917 |
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style |
Various |
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construction |
Various |
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type |
Houses |
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The four grand mansions on the 1200-block, together with the three in the
1500-block, are rare survivors of what Lake Shore Drive looked like when
it developed as a prestigious residential street in the late-19th
century. The architects of these buildings include the prestigious firms
of:
Holabird & Roche; Benjamin Marshall (see Lathrop House);
McKim, Mead & White (see Blackstone Hotel); and Howard Van Doren
Shaw (see Second Presbyterian Church). |
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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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