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Essential Architecture- Chicago
Loop South Union Station |
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architect |
Graham, Anderson, Probst & White |
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location |
210 S. Canal Street |
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date |
1913-25 |
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style |
Beaux-Arts |
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construction |
Stone clad |
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type |
Utility Transport |
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Built during the time when Chicago reigned as the undisputed rail center
of the United States, Union Station handled as many as 300 trains and
100,000 passengers daily. Upon its completion Union Station was hailed
as an outstanding achievement in railroad facility planning and is one
of the most historically significant passenger railroad stations in the
United States. Today the monumental Neoclassical station is the
last-remaining great railroad terminal still in use in Chicago. The
station's ornate Beaux-Arts main waiting room, the "Great Hall," is one
of the United States' great interior public spaces with its vaulted
skylight and connecting lobbies, staircases, and balconies.
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links |
With special thanks to the City of
Chicago website,
www.egov.cityofchicago.org , for much of the info on this page.
Photos copyright City of Chicago. |
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