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| Essential
Architecture- Chicago
Loop South Brooks Building |
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architect |
Holabird & Roche |
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location |
223 W. Jackson Blvd. |
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date |
1909-10 |
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style |
Chicago School |
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construction |
The building, which is notable for its finely detailed
orange-brown and green colored terra cotta ornament, large windows, and
minimal wall surfaces, epitomizes the early steel-framed skyscraper--a type
of structure that Chicago is world renown for having helped create. |
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type |
Office Building |
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| A remarkably intact example of a Chicago School -style structure, which was an architectural movement of international importance that developed here between the 1880s and the early 1900s. The building was commissioned by Boston developers Peter and Shepard Brooks, who built many of Chicago's most innovative structures. It was designed by Holabird & Roche, who were instrumental in the so-called Chicago School of architecture. | |
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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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