Chicago Water Tower
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| Basic data | |
| Place: | Chicago , USA |
| Construction time : | 1868-1869 |
| Status : | Built |
| Architectural style : | Neo-Gothic |
| Architect : | William W. Boyington |
| Technical specifications | |
| Height : | 55 m |
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The Chicago Water Tower is one of the landmarks of Chicago .
history
Erected from yellowish limestone on North Michigan Avenue in 1869, the tower is one of the few buildings in Chicago to survive the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Architect William W. Boyington was commissioned to integrate the city's central drinking water pumping station into a building as inconspicuously as possible. The result was a tower in the style of British Gothic Revival ( English Gothic revival ). Boyington, however, had adapted the style quite extravagantly, which caused criticism at the time. Oscar Wilde called the creation a castle-like monstrosity, full of attached bundle revolvers ("a castellated monstrosity with pepper-boxes stuck all over it"). The architecture is said to have inspired the design of some White Castle fast food restaurants.
The Chicago Water Tower is one of the oldest buildings in the city. A gallery and visitor center for the Chicago Office of Tourism are now located in the pump house. The Chicago Water Tower was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 23, 1975 as a Contributing Property of a Historic District . Together with the Pump House and Fire Station 98, it forms the Old Chicago Water Tower District .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ chicagoarchitecture.org: Chicago Water Tower Edition
- ^ Oscar Wilde: The Chicago Water-Works Tower a Castellated Monstrosity. Chicago Tribune , February 14, 1882, p. 7, digitized in the Chicago Tribune Archives , accessed May 24, 2015.
- ↑ /chicagotonight.wttw.com: Ask Geoffrey: White Castle Inspired by Chicago Water Tower?
- ^ Chicago Avenue Water Tower and Pumping Station in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed August 10, 2017.
Coordinates: 41 ° 53 '49.6 " N , 87 ° 37' 27.9" W.