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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 ...
According to Thomas Tallmadge, "What Chartres was to the Gothic cathedral, the Montauk Block was to the high commercial building". In his non-fiction book set at the World's Columbian Exposition , The Devil in the White City (2003), author Erik Larson claims that the Montauk became the first building to be called a " skyscraper " (Larson 2003: 29).
Rookery Building, 1891. Old Chronicle Building (San Francisco, CA) Montezuma Castle (hotel) Rookery Building; Heyworth Building; Luzon Building; Montauk Building; Masonic Temple (Chicago, Illinois) Monadnock Building; Pearsons Hall of Science; Phoenix (Phenix) Building, Chicago, IL; Rand McNally Building (1889, the first all-steel framed ...
Montauk Building (1882–1883) Chicago (destroyed) Rookery Building (1885) Chicago, National Historic Landmark (NHL) Phoenix (Phenix) Building (1887) Chicago (destroyed) Lake View Presbyterian Church [9] (1888) Chicago; William Chick Scarritt House (1888), NRHP; Monadnock Building (1889), Chicago, National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)
The Montauk Building, [2] designed by John Wellborn Root Sr. and Daniel Burnham, was built from 1882 to 1883 using structural steel. ... 1889 Monadnock Building, ...
Mills Building and Tower; Monadnock Building; Montauk Building; Montezuma Castle (hotel) N. The National, Chicago; Norton–Burnham House; P. Pearsons Hall of Science;
Montauk Building (1882–1883) Kent House (1883) Rookery Building (1886) Reliance Building (1890–1895) Monadnock Building (northern half, 1891) Marshall Field and Company Building (now Macy's, 1891–1892) Fisher Building (1896) Orchestra Hall (1904) Heyworth Building (1904) Sullivan Center (Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co. addition, 1906) [59]
Bilandic Building; Block 37; Blue Cross Blue Shield Tower; BMO Tower (Chicago) ... Monadnock Building; Montauk Building; Municipal Courts Building (Chicago, Illinois ...