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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 ...
It was also known as the Smurfit–Stone Building and the Stone Container Building. While the building was originally going to be called "One Park Place," it opened as The Associates Center, named after the initial tenant of the building, the Associates Commercial Corp. [2] Construction of the building began in 1983 and was completed in 1984.
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 ...
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 ...
Kessler Park is one of the biggest neighborhood housing secrets in Dallas real estate. For under $600,000, you can own your very own castle. At $599,900, this home at 1112 South Canterbury Court ...
The Summary. The "altar stone" at the center of Stonehenge likely originated in present-day Scotland, a study found. That's more than 450 miles away, raising questions about how ...
Oldest large-scale cut stone construction [70] Luxor Temple: Luxor, Egypt: 1400 BCE Religious The oldest standing building partly in use. There is an active mosque within the main structure, visible in the picture, that stands on the ancient pillars of the Egyptian temple. Sanchi Stupa: India: 300 BCE Buddhist temple Oldest extant Buddhist temple.
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