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The Cenotaph, in Whitehall, London, is made from Portland stone. Portland stone is a limestone geological formation (formally named the Portland Stone Formation [1]) dating to the Tithonian age of the Late Jurassic that is quarried on the Isle of Portland in Dorset, England. [1] The quarries are cut in beds of white-grey limestone separated by ...
The gate was designated an official Chicago Landmark on February 24, 1972, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 27, 1972. [1] It was then designated a National Historic Landmark on May 29, 1981. Directly behind the gate is a memorial statue for Chicago firefighters.
Marquette Cement was founded in 1898 in Chicago, Illinois. In 1972, James E. Poole was named president and chief executive officer of the company by its directors. [ 1 ] Marquette Cement moved its headquarters to Nashville , Tennessee in 1974, [ 2 ] and two years later it was acquired by Gulf and Western Industries , becoming part of the Gulf ...
Union Stock Yards, Chicago, 1947. The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or The Yards, was the meatpacking district in Chicago for more than a century, starting in 1865. The district was formed by a group of railroad companies that acquired marshland and turned it into a vast centralized processing area.
In 1994, a new operator, Connecticut Brownstone Quarries, began a small-scale quarrying operation to provide stone for restoration of brownstone buildings. [5] The town purchased the historic quarries and 42 acres (170,000 m 2) of adjacent land in 1999 and 2000. [5] A modern-day view of Brownstone Exploration and Discovery Park.
The Central Manufacturing District of Chicago is a 265-acre (1.07 km 2) area [1] of the city in which private decision makers planned the structure of the district and its internal regulation, including the provision of vital services ordinarily considered to be outside the scope of private enterprise. [2]
The Golden Corridor in the Chicago metropolitan area. The Golden Corridor is the area around the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway (Interstate 90), formerly known as the Northwest Tollway, in the Chicago metropolitan area. [1]
Boulton, Watt and Murdoch in Centenary Square since April 2022 Boulton, Watt and Murdoch Detail of engine plans. Boulton, Watt and Murdoch is a gilded bronze statue depicting Matthew Boulton, James Watt, and William Murdoch by William Bloye, assisted by Raymond Forbes Kings.