Architect: W.W. Boyington The old Water Tower and Chicago Avenue Pumping Station are the only public buildings to survive in this area on Michigan Avenue destroyed by the Fire of 1871. It was...
Architect: A.B. Mullet Never constructed design for a government building in an overblown Second Empire style. Published in The Builder, January 11th 1873.
Architect: Solon S. Beman Constructed of red granite, brick, and terra cotta at the corner of Adams and Michigan (across from the Art Institute), the Pullman Building was a massive and imposing structure...
Architect: Warren H. Hayes Published in the American Architect and Building News, July 7, 1888.
Architects: Daniel Burnham, Frederick Law Olmsted, Peabody & Steams, Henry Ives Cobb, William Channing Whitney, Francis M. Whitehouse, James McLaughlin, Van Brunt & Howe, Charles S. Frost, Lillian Vaters, Warren Skillings The World’s...
Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright This was the Wright family residence from 1889 to 1909. Wright began the construction of this house in 1889 shortly after his marriage, using $5,000 borrowed from Louis Sullivan....
Architect: D.H. Burnham & Company Designed in the “Chicago school”, the Santa Fe Building is now the headquarters of the Chicago Architecture Foundation. In the 1980s the lightwell through the centre of the...
Architect: John Sutcliffe Perspective View including ground floor plan & seating schedule published in The Building News, November 9th 1906. Never quite completed as illustrated, the tower was never constructed and other design...
Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright In 1905, after the original Unity Church burned down, the Unitarian congregation of Oak Park, Illinois turned to architect Frank Lloyd Wright to design them a new structure. There...
