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  2. Huber Site - Wikipedia

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    The site was excavated under the auspices of the University of Chicago by W.C. Bennet, but no comprehensive site report was published. Further excavations took place in 1956 and in 1990 an analysis was published by the Illinois Department of Transportation and the Center for American Archaeology including data from both excavations.

  3. Monadnock Building - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. Austin Historic District (Chicago, Illinois) - Wikipedia

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    While the Panic of 1873 halted the area's early development, a construction boom in the 1880s spurred its growth; most of the homes in the district were built in the 1880s and 1890s. By the time Chicago annexed it in 1899, Austin had become one of the city's more significant middle-class suburbs.

  5. List of the oldest buildings in Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Chicago: 1872 Commercial Berghoff Buildings: Chicago: 1872 Commercial Three buildings currently occupied by the Berghoff restaurant Page Brothers Building: Chicago: 1872 Commercial The building features Chicago's last remaining cast iron façade Harker Hall: Urbana: 1877 College building Oldest building in use on the campus of the University of ...

  6. Robie House - Wikipedia

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    The contractor for the project, H.B. Barnard Co. of Chicago, began construction on April 15, 1909. [11] Wright did not supervise the construction of the house except in the earliest stages. He closed his Oak Park studio in the fall of 1909 and left for Europe to undertake the work that led to the publication of the Wasmuth Portfolio .

  7. List of Gilded Age mansions - Wikipedia

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    Chicago: Demolished in 1967 John W Doane Mansion 1882 Romanesque: Theodore V. Wadskier Chicago: Demolished in 1929. John Cudahy Mansion 1888 Romanesque: Chicago: Demolished in 1961. Cyrus McCormick Mansion 1879 Second Empire: Chicago: Demolished in 1954. Edith Rockefeller McCormick Mansion 1883 Romanesque: Solon Spencer Beman: Chicago

  8. Palmer Mansion - Wikipedia

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    With these great investments in land, she parleyed the fortune into almost double what she had been left and, in 1918, bequeathed an estate of $15,000,000 to her sons Honoré and Potter Palmer Jr. They sold the Chicago mansion in July 1928, for $3,000,000, [9] to the industrialist Vincent Hugo Bendix, who had invented an automobile starter. [8]

  9. Architecture of Chicago - Wikipedia

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    The apartments typically have the same layout with a large living and dining room area at the front, the kitchen at the back and the bedrooms running down one side of the unit. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Illinois Institute of Technology [11] campus in Chicago influenced the later Modern or International style. Van der Rohe's work is sometimes ...

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