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  2. Jean Baptiste Point du Sable - Wikipedia

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    Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist pwɛ̃ dy sɑbl]; also spelled Point de Sable, Point au Sable, Point Sable, Pointe DuSable, or Pointe du Sable; [n 1] before 1750 [n 2] – August 28, 1818) is regarded as the first permanent non-Native settler of what would later become Chicago, Illinois, and is recognized as the city's founder. [7]

  3. List of Hungarian architects - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Hungarian architects 18th century. József Jung (1734–1808) 19th century. Emil Ágoston (1876–1921) Ignác Alpár (1855 ...

  4. Oskar Marmorek - Wikipedia

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    Although Herzl had entrusted Marmorek with all architectural matters related to Zionism, he did not like the architect's plan for a convention center in Basel, and drafted his own plan instead. After Herzl's death in 1904, Marmorek was appointed by the Greater Actions Committee of the World Zionist Organization to act as Chairman until the ...

  5. Architecture of Chicago - Wikipedia

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    The Chicago Building is an example of Chicago School architecture. Beginning in the early 1880s, architectural pioneers of the Chicago School explored steel-frame construction and, in the 1890s, the use of large areas of plate glass. These were among the first modern skyscrapers.

  6. Michigan–Wacker Historic District - Wikipedia

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    The Michigan–Wacker Historic District is a National Register of Historic Places District that includes parts of the Chicago Loop and Near North Side community areas in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The district is known for the Chicago River, two bridges that cross it, and eleven high rise and skyscraper buildings erected in the 1920s. [3]

  7. Chicago River - Wikipedia

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    The first bridge across the Chicago River was constructed over the North Branch near the present day Kinzie Street in 1832. A second bridge, over the South Branch near Randolph Street, was added in 1833. [71] The first moveable bridge was constructed across the main stem at Dearborn Street in 1834. [72]

  8. Bertrand Goldberg - Wikipedia

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    Marina City, Chicago River City, Chicago Old Prentice Women's Hospital Chicago. Bertrand Goldberg (July 17, 1913 – October 8, 1997) was an American architect and industrial designer, best known for the Marina City complex in Chicago, Illinois, the tallest reinforced concrete building in the world at the time of completion.

  9. Eszter Pécsi - Wikipedia

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    In 1918, the Hungarian government passed laws enabling women to study at universities, so in 1919 Pécsi returned to Hungary to complete her education at Királyi József Műegyetem (Budapest University of Technology and Economics). She graduated on 8 March 1920, her twenty-second birthday, the first Hungarian woman to qualify as an architect.