Showing posts with label Chicago. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chicago. Show all posts

Monday, September 30, 2013

The University Club of Chicago

 The University Club of Chicago designed by Holabird & Roche c. 1908 in Chicago, Illinois.  Click HERE for more and HERE to see the club on google street view.










Photos from Architectural Record, 1909.

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

The Sears, Roebuck & Co. Plant

 The Sears, Roebuck & Company Plant designed by Nimmons & Fellows c. 1904 in Chicago, Illinois.  The complex of buildings served as the company's headquarters until the mid 1970s and included a catalog printing plant and mail-order building that was the largest kind of its time.  George C. Nimmons designed later alterations and enlargements to the plant complex.  Click HERE for more on the Sears, Roebuck & Co. Plant.  Click HERE to see the only remaining portion of the mail-order building and HERE to see the administration building on google street view.













Photos from Architectural Record, 1919.

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

The Monroe Building

The Monroe Building designed by Holabird & Roche c. 1912 on S. Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. Beginning in 2007 a new owner undertook renovations to modernize the building, click HERE for more. Click HERE to see the Monroe Building on google street view and HERE to visit the Monroe's website.

Photos from Architecture & Building, 1912.

Sunday, April 8, 2012

The Edgewater Beach Hotel

The Edgewater Beach Hotel designed by Marshall & Fox c. 1916 off of Lake Michigan in Chicago, Illinois. The hotel was closed in 1967 and later demolished. Click HERE and HERE for more on the Edgewater Beach Hotel.

Photos from American Architect & Architecture, 1916.

Thursday, January 26, 2012

The Chicago Northwestern Passenger Terminal

The Chicago Northwestern Passenger Terminal designed by Frost & Granger c. 1911 on Madison Street in Chicago, Illinois. The station was built by the Chicago and North Western Railway to replace their Wells Street Station. In 1984 much of the original station was demolished and rebuilt as the Ogilvie Transportation Center. Click HERE for another exterior shot from the Library of Congress.





Photos from Architects' and Builders' Magazine, 1911.

Sunday, January 15, 2012

The Northern Trust Company Building

The Northern Trust Company Building designed by Frost & Granger c. 1905 at 50 South La Salle Street in Chicago, Illinois. Northern Trust is a financial services company founded in 1889 by Byron Laflin Smith. Click HERE to see the Northern Trust Company Building on google street view.




Photos from Architectural Record, 1907.

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

The Blackstone Hotel

The Blackstone Hotel designed by Benjamin Marshall of Marshall & Fox c. 1909 on South Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. Click HERE and HERE for more on the Blackstone Hotel. Click HERE to see the hotel on google street view.






Photos from Architect's & Builders' Magazine, 1910.

Thursday, December 1, 2011

The Schlesinger & Mayer Building

The Schlesinger & Mayer Building designed by Louis H. Sullivan between 1899-1904 at State and Madison Streets in Chicago, Illinois. Click HERE for more on the Schlesinger & Mayer Building and HERE to see it on google street view (with the decorative base covered up for what appears to construction work).








Photos from Architectural Record, 1904.