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| Essential
Architecture- Chicago
Loop South Dexter Building |
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architect |
Adler & Sullivan |
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location |
630 S. Wabash Ave. |
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date |
1887 |
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style |
Victorian Industrial |
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construction |
The building's unornamented design is a precursor to the firm's work on the Auditorium Building, and the use of a cast-iron structural system permits larger window openings than would have been possible through the use of masonry alone. The distinctive, perforated, cast-iron beams on the rear facade, for example, anticipate building design of nearly seven decades later. |
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type |
Warehouse/ Factory, showroom |
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A modest commercial loft structure, this building represents an
irreplaceable link in the chain of work of one of the nation's most
important architectural partnerships, that of Louis Sullivan and Dankmar
Adler. The building, which was erected by Chicago attorney Wirt Dexter,
was initially used as a factory and showroom for R. Deimel & Brothers, a
furniture manufacturing firm. |
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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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