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London Guarantee Building

architect

Alfred S. Alschuler

location

360 N. Michigan Ave.

date

1922-23

style

Beaux-Arts-style Classical Revival

construction

Stone clad

type

Office Building
 
 
   
One of the city's few and best examples of the Beaux Arts-style Classical Revival applied to the design of a tall office building. It is one of four structures that were constructed around the Michigan Avenue Bridge during the 1920s, a cluster of buildings that has helped define one of Chicago's most dramatic and important urban spaces. The other three buildings are 333 North Michigan Building , Tribune Tower, and the Wrigley Building. Built by a British insurance company to be its American headquarters, the building's irregular-shaped site was part of the land once occupied by Fort Dearborn (1803-56).

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