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It has 150 offices, 300 occupants, and 2 passenger elevators. Erected in 1882, at a cost of $325,000; the first high steel building in Chicago." [5] From 1903-1965, the First National Bank Building occupied the site. In 1965, this was demolished to make way for First National Plaza (now called Chase Tower).
Quonset huts at Point Mugu, California, in 1946 with Laguna Peak in the background. A Quonset hut / ˈ k w ɒ n s ɪ t / is a lightweight prefabricated structure of corrugated galvanized steel with a semi-circular cross-section. The design was developed in the United States based on the Nissen hut introduced by the British during World War I.
The external construction utilized corrugated sheet steel for roofs and siding while the portions which contacted the ground were covered with a 3 ⁄ 16-inch (4.8 mm) thick asbestos shingle which measured 2 by 4 feet (0.61 by 1.22 m). Provisions of the lease agreement between the housing authority and the forest preserve undoubtedly called for ...
Heartebeest Hut – hut used by South African Trekboer built of reeds, sometimes plastered with mud. Hytte – Norwegian cabin or hut; Igloo – a hut made of hard snow or ice; Kolba – Afghanistan hut; Khata – Ukrainian traditional whitewashed wattle-and-daub hut, usually with two rooms, loft, and straw roof
Chicago's Greatest Year, 1893: The White City and the Birth of a Modern Metropolis (2013) online; Gustaitis, Joseph. Chicago Transformed: World War I and the Windy City (2016). online; Herrick, Mary J. The Chicago schools: a social and political history (1971) online the major scholarly history. Hogan, David.
be a recognizable building (defined as any human-made structure used or intended for supporting or sheltering any use or continuous occupancy); incorporate features of building work from the claimed date to at least 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) in height and/or be a listed building. This consciously excludes ruins of limited height, roads and statues.
On June 12, Chicago's Lake Park was re-named Lincoln Park in his honor. 867 Confederate prisoners at Camp Douglas (Chicago) died, bringing the total death toll at the camp to 4,454. The majority of the Confederate prisoners were buried in a mass grave at Oak Woods Cemetery. Corporal punishment was abandoned in schools. [6] Population: 178,492 ...
In January 1858, the first masonry building in Chicago to be thus raised—a four-story, 70-foot-long (21 m), 750-ton (680 metric tons) brick structure situated at the north-east corner of Randolph Street and Dearborn Street—was lifted on two hundred jackscrews to its new grade, which was 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) higher than the old one, “without the slightest injury to the building.” [9 ...