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| Essential
Architecture- Chicago
Loop South Delaware Building |
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architect |
Wheelock and Thomas |
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location |
36 W. Randolph St. |
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date |
1872-74 |
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style |
Italianate |
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construction |
precast concrete facade |
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type |
Office Building |
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One of the few Loop structures surviving from the massive rebuilding that
followed the Fire of 1871, this Italianate-style building is also an
early example of the use of a precast concrete facade in Chicago. An
1889 remodeling made it competitive with newer and larger commercial
buildings by adding two floors, a dramatic steel-framed interior atrium,
and redesigning the first two floors. |
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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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