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HB431342
East Fronts, Facing Michigan Avenue
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HB431343
Top Four Floors Of Gage Building
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HB431344
Cast-iron Lintel Ornament Above Ground Floor Of Gage Building
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HB431345
East Elevation--level Copy Photograph Of Photogrammetric Plate Lc-habs-gs05-t-3224-301r.
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HB431346
East Elevation--inclined Copy Photograph Of Photogrammetric Plate Lc-habs-gs05-t-3224-302r.
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Data Pages
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Item Title
Location18 & 30 South Michigan Avenue,
Chicago, IL
Find maps of Chicago, IL
Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS IL-1065
Building/structure dates:
1899 initial construction
Significance: All three buildings are significant examples of Chicago School architecture. The Gage Building, with its unique, gracefully-ornamented facade designed by Louis Sullivan, was to be one of the architect's last commissions in Chicago. Today there are only five Sulivan-designed buildings in the city's central business district. The Keith and the Ascher Buildings, although less well known, are typical of the several buildings designed in the 1890s and early 1900s by Holabird and Roche. On the exterior the buildings have little applied ornament; brick piers and spandrels surrounding rows of Chicago windows visually express the building's underlying skeleton. In their simplicity, these facades look ahead to the Chicago skyscrapers of the 1960s and 1970s.
Subjects
Office BuildingsStores & Shops
Related Names
Gage Brothers & Company
Edson Keith & Company
Theodore Ascher & Company
Sullivan, Louis
Holabird & Roche
McCormick, Stanley R.
Benjamin, Susan J., Historian
Borchers, Perry E., Photographer
Allen, Harold, Photographer
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. EAST FRONTS, FACING MICHIGAN AVENUE
2. TOP FOUR FLOORS OF GAGE BUILDING
3. CAST-IRON LINTEL ORNAMENT ABOVE GROUND FLOOR OF GAGE BUILDING. ALSO DETAIL OF FRIEZE
4. EAST ELEVATION--LEVEL Copy photograph of photogrammetric plate LC-HABS-GS05-T-3224-301R.
5. EAST ELEVATION--INCLINED Copy photograph of photogrammetric plate LC-HABS-GS05-T-3224-302R.
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