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Chicago's building height regulations enacted in 1892 (the year the Temple was built), didn't allow taller buildings, until that was amended in the 1920s. In 1939 the Masonic Temple was demolished, in part due to its poor internal services, but also due to the construction of the new State Street subway , which would have necessitated expensive ...
Built in 1926, this temple is owned by 11 different lodges. Hiram #1, the first lodge chartered in 1750 in CT, meets here. The building is a brick three-story Classical Revival flat-roofed structure, a contributing resource in the NRHP-listed Whitney Avenue Historic District. [48] 6: Westville Masonic Temple 1926 built 2003 CP-listed 949 ...
The Chicago Temple Building is a 173-metre (568 ft) tall skyscraper church located at 77 W. Washington Street in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is home to the congregation of the First United Methodist Church of Chicago. It was completed in 1924 and has 23 floors dedicated to religious and office use. It is by one measure the tallest ...
1917–1920 Michigan Avenue Bridge, Edward H. Bennett; 1917-1921 Basilica of St. Hyacinth 3636 West Wolfram Avenue, Worthmann & Steinbach; 1919-1924 Wrigley Building, Graham, Anderson, Probst & White; 1921 Chicago Theatre, Beaux-Arts, Cornelius W. Rapp and George L. Rapp; 1921 Old Chicago Main Post Office, Graham, Anderson, Probst & White
The West Loop–LaSalle Street Historic District is a historic district centered on LaSalle Street in the western Chicago Loop. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 1, 2013. [1] A boundary increase on July 24, 2017, added two buildings at 330 S. Wells Street and 212 W. Van Buren Street to the district. [2]
People and art at the Old Town Art Fair in the 1960s Anti-Vietnam War protesters in Lincoln Park during the 1968 Democratic National Convention; the band MC5 can be seen playing Hippies in Old Town in 1968 Vendors and pedestrians at the Old Town Art Fair on Wells Street in 1968. Old Town has one Brown-Purple Line 'El' station, at 1536–40 ...
The Historic Michigan Boulevard District is a historic district in the Loop community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States encompassing Michigan Avenue between 11th (1100 south in the street numbering system) or Roosevelt Road (1200 south), depending on the source, and Randolph Streets (150 north) and named after the nearby Lake Michigan.
Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ was founded by Elder William Roberts in 1916. Its services were held in various Chicago buildings until 1922 when its permanent building was constructed at 4021 S. State Street. [2] The church was initially built as a one-story brick structure. A second story was added in 1927.