demolished in 1926.

The Women's Temple was commissioned by the Women's Christian Temperance Union.  Some called it excessively fussy and feminine, but  Root felt that a building also should represent those who commissioned it (another argument was that this particular group's tendencies would have been to a plainer, more utilitarian design).  It was, however, a typical John Root design in that it was functional and designed to permit as much light as possible into the interior of the building.

Appears in this Rand McNally 1893 3-D map at the Univ. of Illinois at Chicago:
http://tigger.uic.edu/depts/ahaa/imagebase/intranet/chiviews/page163.html

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