Riverside Plaza Building Reliefs - Chicago, IL
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N 41° 52.952 W 087° 38.330
16T E 446996 N 4636931
Thirteen relief panels on the east outside wall depict important figures from the American journalism field plus the history of printing. The remaining six reliefs of printer's marks complete the sculptural program of the building.
Waymark Code: WM8RM5
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 05/07/2010
Views: 7
The printer's marks are pictured above the reliefs.
Eight panels referred to by the Smithsonian Art Inventory:
- Pultizer & Bowles
- Medill & Franklin
- Bennett & C.A.Dana
- Lawson & Greeley
Additional panels:
- The First Writing
- An Ancient Scribe
- Art, Drama, Comedy, Epic.
- The First Press
- The Linotype Man
From waymark WM1XYX
"Riverside Plaza was originally built for the Chicago Daily News by Holabird and Root. It is one of Chicago's great Art Deco buildings. If you look across the river from the Plaza you'll see the Civic Opera Building, another important deco building in the history of Chicago's architecture."
The Chicago Daily News published its last edition on Saturday, March 4, 1978. Thank Heaven this Art Deco treasure of a building has survived!
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Date Sculpture was opened for vewing?: 01/01/1929
Website for sculpture?: [Web Link]
Where is this sculpture?:
Riverside Plaza Building
2 North Riverside Plaza
Chicago, IL USA
Sculptors Name: Alvin Meyer, 1892-1972
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