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Wolfe House & Building Movers used the Buckingham Power Dolly System to move the Harriet Rees house in Chicago, Illinois (November 2014). The house was recognized by the National Park Service with a listing on the National Register of Historic Places on May 22, 2007. [2] Locally, it was recognized as a Chicago Landmark in 2012. [3]
Glessner House, designated on October 14, 1970, as one of the first official Chicago Landmarks Night view of the top of The Chicago Board of Trade Building at 141 West Jackson, an address that has twice housed Chicago's tallest building Chicago Landmark is a designation by the Mayor and the City Council of Chicago for historic sites in Chicago, Illinois. Listed sites are selected after meeting ...
The first sites in Chicago to be listed were four listed on October 15, 1966, when the National Register was created by the National Park Service: the settlement house Hull House, the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Frederick C. Robie House, the Lorado Taft Midway Studios, and the site of First Self-Sustaining Nuclear Reaction. The NPS first ...
a two-story building at 21st Street, with Broadway on one side and a railroad track on the other side; it is 12 feet wide on one end and 65 feet wide on the other end) Howard Southern Triangle Building 1926 built 833 Howard Ave. (between Howard Ave. and St. Joseph St.)
A railroad apartment or railroad flat, sometimes referred to as a floor-through apartment, is an apartment with a series of rooms connecting to each other in a line. [1] The name comes from the layout's similarity to that of a typical (mid-20th century or earlier) passenger train car. [2] Without hallways, it results in less semi-public space.
Dearborn Homes is a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing project located in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois.It is located along State Street between 27th and 30th Streets, and bounded by the Metra rail line to the west.
Forty feet north of the Administration Building is the 2,000,000-square-foot (190,000 m 2) Mail Order House, also known as the Catalog House, that was the heart of Montgomery Ward's operations. Completed in 1908, the eight-story building was painted white and capped with a flat roof, with an interior that contained miles of chutes, conveyors ...
Auburn Gresham, most commonly referred to simply as Gresham, is one of the 77 official community areas of the city of Chicago, Illinois.It is located on the far south side of the city and was the original location of the South Side Irish Parade before it was relocated to the adjoining Beverly neighborhood immediately southwest.