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Demolished hotels in Chicago (11 P) Pages in category "Demolished buildings and structures in Chicago" The following 72 pages are in this category, out of 72 total.
Demolished buildings and structures in Chicago (1 C, 72 P) H. Defunct hospitals in Chicago (8 P) ... McCarthy Building (Chicago, Illinois) McGraw–Hill Building ...
The Manhattan Building is a 16-story building at 431 South Dearborn Street in Chicago, Illinois. It was designed by architect William Le Baron Jenney and constructed from 1889 to 1891. [2] It is the oldest surviving skyscraper in the world to use a purely skeletal supporting structure. [3] It is the sixth oldest surviving building in the city.
Robert Taylor Homes was a public housing project in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois from 1962 to 2007. The largest housing project in the United States, it consisted of 28 virtually identical high-rises, set out in a linear plan for two miles (3 km), with the high-rises regularly configured in a horseshoe shape of three in each block.
The rotunda's 100 ft (30 m) diameter made it larger than that of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. [4] The federal building was also the tallest capitol-style building constructed in Chicago, with the exception of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition buildings, most of which were demolished. Under the dome was a large public space ...
Part of Rotta Loria’s research involved building a 3D computer model to simulate the evolution of ground temperatures since 1951 — when Chicago completed its subway tunnels — and predict it ...
Chicago's building height regulations enacted in 1892 (the year the Temple was built), didn't allow taller buildings, until that was amended in the 1920s. In 1939 the Masonic Temple was demolished, in part due to its poor internal services, but also due to the construction of the new State Street subway , which would have necessitated expensive ...
United States historic place South Dearborn Street – Printing House Row North Historic District U.S. National Register of Historic Places U.S. National Historic Landmark District Chicago Landmark The Manhattan Building (far right), the Fisher Building (far left), and the Old Colony Building (middle-left), three of the four buildings in the district. Show map of Chicago metropolitan area Show ...