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|   Jewelers' Building - Chicago, IL
in U.S. National Register of Historic Places 35 East Wacker Drive was originally known as the Jewelers' Building and a well known design feature was the 22 floor car lift that allowed jewelers to enter the building and ride up to their office without exiting the car.
posted by:  Hikenutty location: Illinois date approved: 9/21/2007 last visited: 9/20/2014 |
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| Balaban and Katz Chicago Theatre - Chicago, Illinois in U.S. National Register of Historic Places The Chicago Theatre was the first large, lavish movie palace in America and was the prototype for all others. This beautiful movie palace was constructed for $4 million and was the flagship of the Balaban and Katz theatre chain. posted by: Hikenutty location: Illinois date approved: 7/16/2007 last visited: 5/20/2018 |
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| Michigan-Wacker Historic District - Chicago, IL in U.S. National Register of Historic Places A major focal point of Chicago - the environs where the Chicago River, Michigan Avenue and Wacker Drive meet. Location of the earliest area inhabitants, including duSable, Kinzie and Fort Dearborn. posted by:  adgorn location: Illinois date approved: 9/5/2008 last visited: 8/11/2014 |
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| New Masonic Building and Oriental Theater - Chicago, IL in U.S. National Register of Historic Places As one of the first motion picture palaces whose décor was inspired by the Far East, Chicago's Oriental Theatre opened to much fanfare on May 8, 1926. It replaced the Iroquois Theater which was the scene of a tragic fire in 1903-see my waymark WM6GZ. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date approved: 6/3/2009 last visited: 1/2/2013 |
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| Rookery Building - Chicago, Illinois in U.S. National Register of Historic Places The Rookery, designed by Burnham and Root in 1885, is considered the first tall office building to solve the problem of the layout of large numbers of offices. posted by: Hikenutty location: Illinois date approved: 8/2/2007 last visited: 10/22/2009 |
 view galleryS0.3 km | Marshall Field Company Store - Chicago, IL in U.S. National Register of Historic Places Designed by D.H. Burnham and Company. The north building was completed in 1902, and the south building, also twelve stories, was erected five years later. The famous clocks decorate the State Street corners. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date approved: 2/24/2010 last visited: 8/7/2014 |
 view galleryNE0.5 km | Du Sable, Jean Baptiste Point, Homesite - Chicago, IL in U.S. National Register of Historic Places Site of the first home/settlement in in Chicago. Only a plaque remains at the site which is now the Equitable Building Plaza. posted by: Special.Ed location: Illinois date approved: 4/22/2006 last visited: 8/6/2014 |
 view galleryW0.5 km | Reid Murdoch Building - Chicago, Illinois in U.S. National Register of Historic Places This massive, 400,000-square foot building, erected in 1914 as the central food processing plant for Reid, Murdoch & Co., represents early commercial establishments that once lined the Chicago River. posted by: JimmyEv location: Illinois date approved: 9/21/2007 last visited: 11/22/2015 |
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| Chicago Public Library, Central Building - Chicago, IL in U.S. National Register of Historic Places Designed by the Boston firm of Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge as the first home of the Chicago Public Library, now the Chicago Cultural Center was completed in 1897. It was designated a Chicago Landmark by the City Council on November 15, 1976. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date approved: 6/20/2008 last visited: 5/10/2019 |
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| Cook County Criminal Court Building - Chicago, IL in U.S. National Register of Historic Places A Richardsonian Romanesque-style building on the Near North Side of Chicago. The structure housed the Cook County Criminal Courts for 35 years. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date approved: 6/4/2009 last visited: 8/6/2014 |
 view galleryS0.5 km | Reliance Building - Chicago, IL in U.S. National Register of Historic Places The Reliance Building is the first skyscraper to have large plate glass windows make up the majority of its surface area, foreshadowing a feature of skyscrapers that would become dominant in the 20th century. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date approved: 10/6/2009 last visited: 1/2/2013 |
 view galleryS0.5 km | Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company - Chicago, IL in U.S. National Register of Historic Places The Carson Pirie Scott name is strongly associated with the historic Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building designed by Louis Sullivan, built in 1899 for the retail firm Schlesinger & Mayer, and expanded and sold to Carson Pirie Scott in 1904. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date approved: 8/3/2013 last visited: 12/20/2019 |
 view galleryS0.5 km | Chicago Savings Bank Building (aka Chicago Building) - Chicago, IL in U.S. National Register of Historic Places An excellent and very visible example of the internationally recognized architectural style known as the Chicago School, featuring large "Chicago windows," metal-frame construction, distinctive bays, and terra cotta cladding. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date approved: 10/9/2009 last visited: 4/20/2013 |
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| Tree Studio Building and Annexes in U.S. National Register of Historic Places This 1894 building was built to attract European artists to Chicago in the years following the 1893 World's Fair. posted by: libbykc location: Illinois date approved: 1/20/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallerySW0.6 km | One North LaSalle Building - Chicago, IL in U.S. National Register of Historic Places Standing squarely in Chicago’s financial district helping to define that famous business corridor, this is a no-nonsense building designed to create profit for its owners, provide its tenants with functional space and impress the public at large. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date approved: 3/12/2010 last visited: 3/22/2013 |
 view galleryS0.8 km | Marquette Building - Chicago, IL in U.S. National Register of Historic Places The Marquette Building, completed in 1895, is a Chicago, Illinois landmark that was built by the George A. Fuller Company and designed by architects Holabird & Roche. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date approved: 6/7/2009 last visited: 10/14/2015 |
 view galleryS0.8 km | Art Institute of Chicago - Chicago, IL in U.S. National Register of Historic Places The AIC can be found in Grant Park near the shores of Lake Michigan. It was originally built in 1893 as the World's Congress Auxiliary Building for the 1893 World's Fair. posted by: Hikenutty location: Illinois date approved: 7/14/2007 last visited: 4/29/2020 |
 view galleryS1 km | Orchestra Hall - Chicago, IL in U.S. National Register of Historic Places Completed in 1904, Orchestra Hall is home to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. posted by: libbykc location: Illinois date approved: 12/8/2019 last visited: never |
 view galleryS1 km | Rothschild, A. M., & Company Store - Chicago, IL in U.S. National Register of Historic Places An example of Chicago School architecture, this building was originally home to the A.M. Rothschild & Company department store and is now home to the downtown campus of DePaul University. posted by: libbykc location: Illinois date approved: 11/29/2019 last visited: never |
 view galleryS1 km | Monadnock Block - Chicago, Illinois in U.S. National Register of Historic Places The Monadnock Building, the last building designed by John Root, was built in 1892 and is the tallest solid brick masonry building in the world. posted by: Hikenutty location: Illinois date approved: 7/31/2007 last visited: 10/24/2017 |
 view galleryS1 km | Railway Exchange Building - Chicago, IL in U.S. National Register of Historic Places A beautiful white terra cotta sky scraper designed by one of Chicago's most renowned architects. posted by: libbykc location: Illinois date approved: 12/16/2020 last visited: never |
 view galleryN1 km | Holy Name Cathedral - Chicago,IL in U.S. National Register of Historic Places The cathedral of the Archdiocese of Chicago.
posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date approved: 10/31/2008 last visited: 12/6/2015 |
 view galleryS1.1 km | Buckingham Building - Chicago, IL in U.S. National Register of Historic Places This Art Deco skyscraper in downtown Chicago has been converted into residential use. posted by: libbykc location: Illinois date approved: 12/8/2019 last visited: never |
 view galleryS1.1 km | Chicago Club - Chicago, IL in U.S. National Register of Historic Places Designed by architects Alfred Hoyt Granger and John Carlisle Bollenbacher and built in 1929, the Chicago Club is the home of one of the city's oldest private social clubs. posted by: libbykc location: Illinois date approved: 11/10/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallerySW1.1 km | Chicago Board of Trade Building - Chicago, IL in U.S. National Register of Historic Places Since 1930 the Chicago Board of Trade has been housed in this 605 foot building by Holabird and Root. The building is designed in the art deco style and is the tallest art deco building in the world outside of New York. posted by: Hikenutty location: Illinois date approved: 7/28/2007 last visited: 5/10/2019 |
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