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The Chicago Athletic Association Building – South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, United States

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Sun, 26 May 2019 01:55:00 +0000

A fine example of Venetian Gothic architecture, the Chicago Athletic Association Building at 12 South Michigan Avenue between East Monroe and East Madison Streets in the Loop neigbourhood of Chicago, Illinois, was built in 1893 and was designed by Henry Ives Cobb. The eleven story building operated as an elite private men’s club until 2007. It now hosues a 241 room hotel.

Fallen Arch – Chicago Stock Exchange Arch, Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois, United States

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Wed, 22 May 2019 17:39:48 +0000

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During the late nineteenth century, architect Louis Henri Sullivan (1856–1924) created a new and honest expression in the design of buildings, inspiring a genre known as Chicago School of Architecture. While many other architects adhered to fanciful historical styles which were very popular at the time, Sullivan created buildings that expressed their structural design, relying only upon simple and organic ornamentation to embellish their facades. The Chicago Stock Exchange, designed by Sullivan with his partner, Dankmar Adler, was widely considered an architectural masterpiece. Constructed in 1893, the thirteen-story building incorporated Sullivan’s signature ornamentation that combined geometric forms with expressions of natural foliage.

In the 1960s and 1970s, many beautiful nineteenth century buildings in Chicago were demolished to make way for new development. In an effort to inspire preservation efforts, photographer Richard Nickel (1928–1972) began to document old buildings as they fell into decay or were slated for demolition. As Nickel struggled to find support to save monuments like the Chicago Stock Exchange Building, he asserted: "Great architecture has only two natural enemies: water and stupid men." Sadly, Nickel died in 1972 when a staircase collapsed on him inside the Chicago Stock Exchange Building. Despite a strong public movement opposing the demolition of the architectural masterpiece, the building was razed in 1972. After the demolition, the Art Institute of Chicago acquired the building’s terra cotta arch, along with several other original fragments. Using a gift from the Heller Foundation, the Art Institute installed the iconic arch in a small plaza just northeast of the museum in 1977. Around the same time, the Art Institute opened a reconstructed version of Adler & Sullivan’s Stock Exchange Trading Room as part of the museum’s East Wing Addition.

Art Deco Elevator Doors – Lake-Michigan Building Lobby, Chicago, Illinois, United States

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Wed, 22 May 2019 17:29:57 +0000

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Jewelers' Building, Take #2 – 35 East Wacker, Chicago, Illinois, United States

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Fri, 17 May 2019 20:33:37 +0000

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Fort Dearborn Plaque – London Guaranty & Accident Building, Chicago, Illinois, United States

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Fri, 17 May 2019 20:15:53 +0000

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Industrial River Mural #2 – London Guaranty & Accident Building Lobby, Chicago, Illinois, United States

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Fri, 17 May 2019 20:14:42 +0000

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Industrial River Mural #1 – London Guaranty & Accident Building Lobby, Chicago, Illinois, United States

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Fri, 17 May 2019 20:13:42 +0000

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Rotunda Ceiling – London Guaranty & Accident Building Lobby, Chicago, Illinois, United States

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Fri, 17 May 2019 20:12:32 +0000

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Ceiling the Deal – London Guaranty & Accident Building Lobby, Chicago, Illinois, United States

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Fri, 17 May 2019 20:11:14 +0000

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London Guarantee and Accident Building – East Wacker Drive, The Loop, Chicago, Illinois, United States

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Fri, 17 May 2019 20:10:10 +0000

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London House, Take #3 – East Wacker Drive, The Loop, Chicago, Illinois, United States

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Fri, 17 May 2019 20:08:45 +0000

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The London Guarantee Building or London Guaranty & Accident Building is a historic 1923 commercial skyscraper whose primary occupant since 2016 is the LondonHouse Chicago Hotel Formerly, for a time named the Stone Container Building, it is located near the Loop in Chicago, and is one of four 1920s skyscrapers that surround the Michigan Avenue Bridge (the others are the Wrigley Building, Tribune Tower and 333 North Michigan Avenue) and is a contributing property to the Michigan-Wacker Historic District. It stands on part of the former site of Fort Dearborn. From 1872 until 1921 the site was home to the a 7-floor structure that housed the business of William M. Hoyt & Co. The Hoyt company was created during the Civil War. Hoyt became a leading grocery wholesaler, with annual sales of close to $1 million by the mid-1870s and nearly $5 million by the early 1890s, when it was among the region’s leading food distributors.

The London Guarantee & Accident Building was designed by Chicago architect Alfred S. Alschuler and completed in 1923 for the London Guarantee & Accident Company, an insurance firm that was then its principal occupant. The top of the building is noted to resemble the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates in Athens, but it was modeled after the Stockholm Stadshus.

From the 1960s through the 1980s, the studios of Chicago’s WLS (AM) radio were located on the fifth floor of the building. For several decades, Paul Harvey performed his daily syndicated radio show from studios on the fourth floor. The building was also famous from the 1950s through the early 1970s for The London House, a famous Chicago jazz nightclub and steakhouse that was located on the west side of the building’s first floor; it had its own entrance on Wacker Drive. It was one of the foremost jazz clubs in the country, once home to such luminaries as Oscar Peterson, Ramsey Lewis, Bill Evans, Dave Brubeck, Marian McPartland, Cannonball Adderley, Erroll Garner, Ahmad Jamal, Nancy Wilson, Barbara Carroll, Bobby Short and many others. In the 1980s and 1990s TV show Perfect Strangers, the building's exterior was used as the home of the fictional newspaper Chicago Chronicle.

The London Guarantee & Accident Building was designated a Chicago Landmark on April 16, 1996.

The Wrigley Building, Take #4 – Viewed from the Irv Kupcinet Bridge, North Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, United States

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Wed, 15 May 2019 17:23:53 +0000

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Chicago River at Dusk – Viewed from the State Street Bridge, Chicago, Illinois, United States

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Wed, 15 May 2019 17:22:42 +0000

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City Winery at Dusk – River Walk South, Chicago, Illinois, United States

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Wed, 15 May 2019 17:21:14 +0000

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London House at Dusk – Viewed from the State Street Bridge, Chicago, Illinois, United States

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Wed, 15 May 2019 17:20:05 +0000

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George Washington and Haym Solomon – Heald Square East, Upper Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois, United States

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Wed, 08 May 2019 17:20:00 +0000

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Haym Salomon’s life was brief and tumultuous, but his impact on America was great. A Polish-born Jewish businessman, Haym Salomon (1740-1785) advanced from penniless refugee to become one of the most important financers of the American Revolution. Risking his fortune, he helped fund General Washington’s army, securing loans at rock-bottom prices. After the war was won, Salomon used his own money to help finance America’s newly-formed but impoverished government. Sadly, his generosity was not repaid. It seemed that Congress did not recognize their debt to Salomon, refusing to repay the money they’d borrowed. When Salomon died in poverty, at the age of just 45, his family was left unable to reclaim their debt from the government. In 1975, The U.S. Postal Service issued a stamp hailing Salomon as a "Fnancial Hero of the American Revolution."

Like Corn on the Cob – Marina City, Viewed from the Irv Kupcinet Bridge, North Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, United States

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Wed, 08 May 2019 17:17:18 +0000

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Marina City is a mixed-use residential-commercial building complex in Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America, designed by architect Bertrand Goldberg. The multi-building complex opened between 1963 and 1967 and occupies almost an entire city block on State Street on the north bank of the Chicago River on the Near North Side, directly across from the Loop.Portions of the complex were designated a Chicago Landmark in 2016.

The complex consists of two 587-foot (179 m), 65-story apartment towers, opened in 1963, which include physical plant penthouses. It also includes a 10-story office building (now a hotel) opened in 1964, and a saddle-shaped auditorium building originally used as a cinema. The four buildings, access driveways, and a small plaza that originally included an ice rink are built on a raised platform next to the Chicago River. Beneath the platform, at river level, is a small marina for pleasure craft, giving the structures their name.

The Wrigley Building, Take #3 – Viewed from the Irv Kupcinet Bridge, North Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, United States

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Wed, 08 May 2019 17:18:29 +0000

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The Wabash Avenue Bridge (officially, Irv Kupcinet Bridge) over the Chicago River was built in 1930. Standing west of the Michigan Avenue Bridge and east of Marina City, the bascule bridge connects the Near North Side with "The Loop" area.

Shields – Tribune Tower, Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, United States

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 17:44:43 +0000

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Embedded History – Tribune Tower, Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, United States

nobody@ipernity.com (Jonathan Cohen) — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 17:43:14 +0000

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Prior to the building of the Tribune Tower, correspondents for the Chicago Tribune brought back rocks and bricks from a variety of historically important sites throughout the world at the request of Colonel McCormick. Many of these reliefs have been incorporated into the lowest levels of the building and are labeled with their location of origin. Stones included in the wall are from such sites as the St. Stephen’s Cathedral, Trondheim Cathedral, Taj Mahal, Clementine Hall, the Parthenon, Hagia Sophia, Corregidor Island, Palace of Westminster, petrified wood from the Redwood National and State Parks, the Great Pyramid, The Alamo, Notre Dame de Paris, Abraham Lincoln’s Tomb, the Great Wall of China, Independence Hall, Fort Santiago, Angkor Wat, Ta Prohm, Wawel Castle, Banteay Srei, and Rouen Cathedral’s Butter Tower, which inspired the shape of the building.

Some of these had a political or social context such as the stone from the Berlin Wall and the column fragment of Wawel Castle located in its own niche over the upper-left corner of the main entrance, as a visual tribute[citation needed] to Chicago’s large Polish populace, the largest such presence outside of the Republic of Poland. There are 149 fragments in the building. More recently a rock brought from the moon was displayed in a window in the Tribune giftstore (it could not be added to the wall as NASA owns a large majority of the Apollo moon rocks, and this one, within that category, was merely on loan to the Tribune). A piece of steel recovered from the World Trade Center has been added to the wall.