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Essential Architecture- Chicago
Loop South London Guarantee Building |
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architect |
Alfred S. Alschuler |
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location |
360 N. Michigan Ave. |
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date |
1922-23 |
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style |
Beaux-Arts-style Classical Revival |
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construction |
Stone clad |
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Office Building |
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| Rotunda ceiling | |
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| 333 North Michigan, 360 North Michigan, Mather Tower and 35 East Wacker | |
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| London Guarantee Building entrance commemorating Fort Dearborn. | |
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The London Guarantee Building is a historic building located in the Loop
community area of Chicago, Illinois. It is known as one of the four
1920s flanks of the Michigan Avenue Bridge (along with the Wrigley
Building, Tribune Tower and 333 North Michigan Avenue). It sits on part
of the former site of Fort Dearborn. It was designated a Chicago
Landmark on April 16, 1996.[1] The top of the building resembles the
Choragic Monument in Athens, but it is supposedly modelled after the
Stockholm Stadshus.[2] It is located on the short quarter mile stretch
of Michigan Avenue between the Chicago Landmark Historic Michigan
Boulevard District and the Magnificent Mile. 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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Chicago website,
www.egov.cityofchicago.org , for much of the info on this page.
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