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The Montauk Building – also referred to as Montauk Block [1] [2] ... Erected in 1882, at a cost of $325,000; the first high steel building in Chicago." [5]
1882–1883 Montauk Building, Daniel Burnham and John Wellborn Root. First building to be called a "skyscraper." (Demolished, 1902) 1885 Home Insurance Building, Chicago School, William Le Baron Jenney (Demolished, 1931) Home Insurance Building (1885)
The Chicago School of Architecture: A history of commercial and public buildings in the Chicago area 1875–1925. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1964. ISBN 978-0-226-11455-2; Merwood-Salisbury, Joanna. Chicago 1890: The Skyscraper and the Modern City. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-226-52078-0
The Monadnock was commissioned by Boston real estate developers Peter and Shepherd Brooks in the building boom following the Depression of 1873–79. [5] The Brooks family, which had amassed a fortune in the shipping insurance business and had been investing in Chicago real estate since 1863, had retained Chicago property manager Owen F. Aldis to manage the construction of the seven-story ...
Buildings produce 70% of greenhouse gas emissions in Chicago, so reducing those emissions is key to any climate plan, according to Chicago Deputy Chief Sustainability Officer Jared Policicchio ...
Former president Donald Trump could end up owing more than $100 million to the Internal Revenue Service after he used a dodgy accounting tactic to claim improper tax breaks on his Chicago building ...
Chicago building explosion leaves at least 8 injured. Dylan Stableford. September 20, 2022 at 9:17 AM. At least eight people were taken to the hospital after an explosion caused a residential ...
The Montauk Building, c. 1886. At age 26, Burnham moved on to the Chicago offices of Carter, Drake and Wight where he met future business partner John Wellborn Root, who was 21 and four years younger than Burnham. The two became friends and then opened an architectural office together in 1873.