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Odyssey House is the name of private not-for-profit organization established in 1967 in East Harlem to provide treatment and education for drug and alcohol addiction and victims of child abuse. While additional centres have since opened in the US, Australia and New Zealand, each centre has operated as an independent organisation since the 1980s.
The New York Life Insurance Building is a 14-story building at 39 South LaSalle Street in the Loop neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois. Designed by William Le Baron Jenney , it was completed as a 12-story structure in 1894 at a cost of $800,000, equivalent to $29,073,846 in 2024. [ 1 ]
Equitable Life Building 1902 / 1940 [23] 12 [23] Yes 39 South LaSalle New York Life Insurance Building. 1894 / 1898 / 1903 [24] 14 [24] Yes 50 South LaSalle Northern Trust Company Building. 1905 / 1928 / 1967 [25] 12 [25] Yes 120 South LaSalle State Bank of Chicago 1928 [26] 22 [26] Yes 135 South LaSalle Field Building. 1934 [27] 42 [27] Yes ...
The Gage Group Buildings consist of three buildings located at 18, 24 and 30 S. Michigan Avenue, between Madison Street and Monroe Street, in Chicago, Illinois. They were built from 1890–1899, designed by Holabird & Roche for the three millinery firms - Gage, Keith and Ascher.
1885 Home Insurance Building, Chicago School, William Le Baron Jenney (Demolished, 1931) Home Insurance Building (1885) 1885 Palmer Mansion , early Romanesque and Norman Gothic , Henry Ives Cobb and Charles Sumner Frost (Demolished, 1950)
The Chicago press at the time of its construction did not refer to it as the first skyscraper in Chicago. [13] An 1884 list of buildings considered skyscrapers in Chicago listed three buildings in the city whose final heights would be taller than the Home Insurance Building's, although the Home Insurance Building was completed in 1885, a year ...
In addition to practicing law, Mays also sold life insurance and at various times lived in Chicago, Illinois; Dubuque, Iowa; and Indianapolis, Indiana. In 1902, Mays and his first wife, Sarah Elizabeth Randels, moved to Salt Lake City, Utah where they raised their five children.
541 North Fairbanks Court, formerly the Time-Life Building, is a 404-foot-tall (123 m), 30-story skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois, designed by Harry Weese and completed in 1969. [1] Located on the Near North Side , it was among the first in the U.S. to use double-deck elevators . [ 2 ]