Chicago Building
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Chicago Building Chicago Savings Bank Building |
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| Chicago Building looking from the northeast; in the background on the right One South Dearborn | ||
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Chicago , United States
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| Construction time : | 1903-1905 | |
| Opening: | 1905 | |
| Status : | Built | |
| Architectural style : | Neo-Renaissance , Chicago School | |
| Architect : | William Holabird , Martin Roche | |
| Architects : | Holabird & Roche | |
| Coordinates : | 41 ° 52 '54.6 " N , 87 ° 37' 41.5" W | |
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| Use / legal | ||
| Usage : | Student residence , retail | |
| Client : | Chicago Savings Bank | |
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| Address: | 7 West Madison St | |
| Post Code: | 60602 | |
The Chicago Building (also: Chicago Savings Bank Building , 7 West Madison Street ) is a built in the early twentieth century, fünfzehngeschossiges skyscraper in downtown Chicago in the US state of Illinois .
The building is located directly on the southwest corner of State Street and Madison Street , which has long been considered the world's busiest corner ( Eng . About "the busiest corner in the world"). A corner stone on the second floor of the building represents the zero point for the numbering of the addresses in Chicago (i.e. the house numbers increase from this point in all four directions; in addition, all city streets are referred to this point in their east and west side or north and south side).
The building has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1975 .
history
After the building was completed in 1905, Chicago Savings Bank , which was temporarily housed in the Merchant's Loan & Trust Building at Adams Street and Clark Street (demolished in 1931) during construction, moved to the lower floors of the building for most of the time The upper storeys mainly housed medical practices . When the bank left its premises in 1913, a dozen dentists and thirty doctors had settled in the building. In the period that followed, the tenants also included architects, including Lebenbaum & Marx ; as well as several jewelers . In the 1950s, the vending machine maker Lunch Box, Inc. moved in ; the Chicago Board of Education later took over the building.
The Chicago Landmarks Commission issued in 1996, the Landmark status (dt. About landmarks ) for the building after it had been rejected even in 1987.
Since 1997, the Chicago Building has housed a dormitory for the School of the Art Institute , an art college . A branch of the clothing retailer Zumiez is located on the ground floor .
architecture
Erected by Holabird & Roche in the style of the neo-renaissance in steel frame construction, it also shows typical characteristics of the Chicago school . These include the typical Chicago Windows built into the east, north and west façades , vertically three-part windows with a large, central, permanently glazed element and a smaller sliding window on the left and right; as well as the cantilevered bay windows on the north facade, which extend over twelve floors . The facade is clad with dark, red-brown terracotta tiles.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Tom Miller: Seeking Chicago - The Stories behind the architecture of the windy city - one building at a time . Universe Publishing, New York 2019, ISBN 978-0-7893-3387-2 (English).
- ^ National Register of Historic Places. Digital Archive on NPGallery. National Park Service , accessed July 15, 2020 .
- ^ Chicago window. Chicago Architecture Center , accessed July 15, 2020 .