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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 ...
Chicago: Home to the Richard H. Driehaus Museum [7] Borden Mansion 1886 Châteauesque: Richard Morris Hunt: Chicago: Built for William Borden, was demolished in 1962 MacVeigh Mansion 1893 Richardson Romanesque: Henry Hobson Richardson: Chicago: Built for Franklin MacVeigh, it was one of only two structures designed by HH Rochardson in Chicago ...
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 word trilithon is derived from the Greek 'having three stones' (Tri - three, lithos - stone) and was first used by William Stukeley. The term also describes the groups of three stones in the Hunebed tombs of the Netherlands and the three massive stones forming part of the wall of the Temple of Jupiter at Baalbek , Lebanon.
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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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.
Formerly, for a time named the Stone Container Building, [2] it is located near the Loop in Chicago, and is one of four historic 1920s skyscrapers that surround the Michigan Avenue Bridge over the Chicago River (the others are the Wrigley Building, Tribune Tower and 333 North Michigan Avenue) and is a contributing property to the Michigan ...