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Architectural Sights

Monadnock Building
1
MAP K5 • 53 W. Jackson Blvd.
At 16 stories, this impressive
Holabird and Roche designed
building (1891) is one of the world’s
tallest all-masonry high-rises.
Inside, there’s a magnificent
wrought-iron staircase (see p43).
Marquette Building
2
MAP K4 • 56 W. Adam St.
Chicago architects Holabird and
Roche built this Chicago School
structure with a steel skele ton and
decorative ornamentation in 1895.
Fisher Building
3 Beaux-Arts-style Chicago Theatre
MAP K5 • 343 S. Dearborn St.
Chicago Theatre
A Chicago School edifice with a 6
steel structure, this 1896 Neo- MAP K4 • 175 N. State St.
Gothic building is by Daniel H. The red sign of this Beaux-Arts-style
Burnham. Aquatic motifs on the theater is a symbol of Chicago. Built
façade honor the building’s first in 1921 as a movie theater, today it is
owner, L. G. Fisher. a performance venue.
Reliance Building
7
MAP K4 • 1 W. Washington St.
Daniel H. Burnham’s stunning
glass-and-white-glazed-terra-cotta
building (1895) is now the Hotel
Burnham (see p117).
Sullivan Center
8
MAP K4 • 1 S. State St.
Eye-catching cast-iron swirls on part
of the exterior of this building (1899
and 1903) express architect Louis H.
Art Deco features, One North LaSalle Sullivan’s love of elaborate detail.
Inland Steel Building
One North LaSalle
4 9
MAP K4 • 30 W. Monroe St.
MAP K4
This 1930-built, 49-story building One of the first skyscrapers to be built
was Chicago’s tallest for 35 years, (in 1957) on steel, not concrete, pilings,
and is one of the city’s best surviving this predates the John Hancock Center
examples of Art Deco architecture. (see p12) in using external supports.
Federal Center
Santa Fe Center
5 0
MAP K4 • 219 S. Dearborn St.
Daniel H. Burnham designed
this elegant high-rise in 1904: Flanked by Ludwig Mies van der
its carved building signs are from Rohe’s Modernist federal buildings,
Chicago’s days as a railroad hub. this plaza (1959–74) contains
The ground level houses the Chicago Alexander Calder’s striking steel
Architecture Foundation (see p63). statue Flamingo (1974).
See map on pp70–71

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