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|  Emil Bach House - Chicago, IL
in Frank Lloyd Wright Designed Buildings Designed by FL Wright in 1915, the house is a late Prairie Style structure with numerous cubic forms, geometric features and overhanging flat roofs, located in the Rogers Park neighborhood. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date approved: 9/4/2011 last visited: never |
view gallery S1.6 km
|  North Sheridan Road Art Deco Building - Chicago, IL
in Art Deco - Art Nouveau Scenes of historic Chicago on the facade of this retail building. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date approved: 8/23/2011 last visited: never |
view gallery S4.8 km
|  Tweet Restaurant building - Chicago, IL
in Art Deco - Art Nouveau Preserved as a restaurant and bar, the owner stripped off signs and ironwork that obscured the building's ornament. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date approved: 4/18/2009 last visited: never |
view gallery S5.1 km
|  Uptown Station Post Office - Chicago, IL
in Art Deco - Art Nouveau A beautiful Art Deco building, with eagle sculptures out front and WPA era murals within, serving this north-side community of Chicago since 1939. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date approved: 8/14/2010 last visited: 1/6/2012 |
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|  Indian Chief frieze - Chicago, IL
in Art Deco - Art Nouveau Two art deco terra cotta Indian Chief heads adorn this modest storefront in the Uptown neighborhood on Chicago's north side. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date approved: 8/14/2010 last visited: never |
view gallery S5.6 km
|  Bull Dog Lock Company building - Chicago, IL
in Art Deco - Art Nouveau Cool little streamlined building. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date approved: 11/23/2011 last visited: never |
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|  Ludwig Mies van der Rohr - Final Resting Place - Chicago, IL, USA
in Master Architects - International Style Graceland Cemetery is the graveyard of Chicago architecture giants including Ludwig Mies van der Rohr, Louis Sullivan, John Root, William Holabird, Howard Van Doren Shaw, William LeBaron Jenney, George Elmslie, and Bruce Goff. posted by: BootyBuddies location: Illinois date approved: 12/16/2007 last visited: 1/10/2012 |
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|  Anton Cermak mausoleum - Bohemian National Cemetery, Chicago, IL
in Art Deco - Art Nouveau An art deco mausoleum for the assassinated Mayor of Chicago. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date approved: 11/12/2011 last visited: never |
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|  Marmon Hupmobile Showroom (aka Nick's Uptown Bar) - Chicago, IL
in Art Deco - Art Nouveau Egyptian motif, built 1920 by Paul Gerhard. Former car showroom, now a great bar called Nick's Uptown. Locasted at 4015-17 N. Sheridan Road. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date approved: 5/29/2009 last visited: never |
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|  Reebie Moving and Storage Company - Chicago, IL
in Art Deco - Art Nouveau The Reebie Storage Warehouse was built for the Reebie Storage and Moving Company in Chicago, Illinois, in 1922 (the year King Tut's tomb was discovered!) It is a widely recognized example of Egyptian Revival architecture.
posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date approved: 4/18/2009 last visited: never |
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|  Ashland Avenue Bridge over the Chicago River - Chicago, IL
in Art Deco - Art Nouveau Handsome Art Deco bas-relief sculptures on the block-like bridge tender houses, framed by tall steel pylons on each end of the bridge. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date approved: 1/25/2012 last visited: never |
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|  Illinois National Guard (33rd Div) Northwest Armory - Chicago, IL
in Art Deco - Art Nouveau This strong art deco limestone block gives the reassurance of a fort - but with the modern styling of an office building or movie palace. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date approved: 10/14/2009 last visited: never |
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|  James Charnley House
in Frank Lloyd Wright Designed Buildings Designed by Wright while in the employ of Adler and Sullivan, the Charnley house is a perfect “city house” located in Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood. The house was a collaboration between Wright and his Liebermeister for a Chicago lumber magnate. posted by: BootyBuddies location: Illinois date approved: 10/21/2007 last visited: never |
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|  Fisher Studio Houses - Chicago, IL
in Art Deco - Art Nouveau The Fisher Studio Houses are some of the city's finest pre-World War II modern designs. It is an exceptional and rare example of the Art Moderne style of architecture, which was influenced by European modernism. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date approved: 10/29/2011 last visited: never |
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|  Mies van der Rohe - 900-910 Lake Shore Drive - Chicago
in Master Architects - International Style The Esplanade Apartments were the first high-rise buildings designed by Mies to fully implement a continuous exterior curtain wall that was articulated separate from the building’s structural frame. posted by: RakeInTheCache location: Illinois date approved: 7/20/2011 last visited: never |
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|  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe-Lake Shore Drive Apts-Chicago IL USA
in Master Architects - International Style 860-880 Lake Shore Drive Apts was designed to be occupied by middle-class families. posted by: 8Nuts MotherGoose location: Illinois date approved: 10/7/2007 last visited: 6/2/2011 |
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|  "The Modern Electric Home" - Park Ridge, IL
in Art Deco - Art Nouveau A residence located at 925 S. Crescent. White with black trim, with a funky crescent moon over the door and angular windows. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date approved: 3/13/2009 last visited: never |
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|  Merchandise Mart - Chicago, IL
in Art Deco - Art Nouveau When it opened in 1930 the Merchandise Mart was the largest building in the world at 4 million square feet. The art deco structure is so large that it was given its own zip code. posted by: Hikenutty location: Illinois date approved: 7/27/2007 last visited: 11/2/2012 |
view gallery S14.5 km
|  300 North LaSalle - Chicago, IL
in LEED Buildings 300 North LaSalle is a 60-story mixed-use building, constructed from 2006 to 2009, located on the north bank of the Chicago River on the Near North Side community area of Chicago, Illinois posted by: geckl69 location: Illinois date approved: 7/31/2012 last visited: never |
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|  NBC Tower - Chicago, IL
in Art Deco - Art Nouveau Built in 1989, one of the truest reproductions of the art deco style in any postmodern skyscraper. The building serves as the network's Chicago-based studio center, located at 454 North Columbus Drive. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date approved: 6/26/2009 last visited: 10/9/2011 |
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|  IBM Building - Mies van der Rohe
in Master Architects - International Style This is Mies van der Rohe's last and largest building in the United States. It embraces the international style, reducing the skyscraper to its most basic form with no ornamentation whatsoever. posted by: Hikenutty location: Illinois date approved: 7/11/2007 last visited: 7/28/2012 |
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|  Mies van der Rohe - One Illinois Center - Chicago
in Master Architects - International Style 111 East Wacker Drive (One Illinois Center) is a 30-story signature office building completed in 1970 and was one of the last works of legendary architect, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. posted by: RakeInTheCache location: Illinois date approved: 7/24/2011 last visited: 11/9/2011 |
view gallery S14.6 km
|  E-Z Polish Factory Building - Chicago, IL
in Frank Lloyd Wright Designed Buildings E-Z Polish Factory is located at 3005 W Carroll Avenue, Chicago, IL 60612. posted by: Metro2 location: Illinois date approved: 7/19/2011 last visited: 6/17/2011 |
view gallery S14.6 km
|  Egyptian Lacquer Manufacturing Company - Chicago, IL
in Art Deco - Art Nouveau A small but beautifully detailed industrial building on Chicago's west side, featuring Egyptian motifs. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date approved: 10/14/2009 last visited: never |
view gallery S14.6 km
|  333 North Michigan Avenue - Chicago, IL
in Art Deco - Art Nouveau The first Chicago skyscraper done in the Art Deco style, located near the former site of Chicago's Ft. Dearborn, at the mouth of the Chicago River. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date approved: 1/3/2010 last visited: 11/9/2011 |
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