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The Newberry Library
This page last updated 07/26/2008
This list does not include every
building
designed by these architects, but I will attempt to add more
biographical
information and more buildings as time (and money) permit.
At the same time, many buildings in my Chicago collection are not
listed here, as the architects and dates of completion are
unknown. All cards are listed at Postcards
A-Z.
My sincere thanks to all the folks who
have helped
me with information on these buildings, and particular John Hug, a
volunteer
with the Chicago Architecture Foundation, and Dave Daruszka who hosts
an
excellent Ridge
Historical
Society web site.
The buildings listed and not
linked are
my wish list. The architects are not listed in any
particular order.
Pat
Sabin
Dankmar
Adler and Louis Sullivan - Adler and Sullivan Co.
- Schiller
Building (later Garrick Theater), 64 West Randolph Street,
1891-92,
destroyed 1961
- Bordon Block, 1879-80, northwest corner of
Randolph and
Dearborn streets
- Rothschild Store (first one), 1881,
210 West
Monroe Street
- Jewelers Building, 1881-82, 15 South Wabash
Avenue Revell
Building,
1881-83,
northeast corner of Wabash Avenue and Adams Street;
designated
Chicago Landmark 1981.
- Third
McVickers
Theater, 1883,1885, 25 West Madison Street, demolished in 1922
- The Zion Temple, 1885, Washington and Ogden
Avenue
- Thirty-Ninth Street Passenger Station, 1886,
demolished in
1934
- Standard Club, 1887-88, southwest corner of
Michigan Ave.
and 24th
Street,
Demolished in 1910.
- The
Auditorium Building,
1887-89, northwest corner of Michigan Ave and Congress Pkwy.
Designated
a Chicago Landmark in 1976.
- Troescher Building, 1884, 15 South Wacker Drive
- Stock
Exchange Building, 1893-94, 30 North LaSalle Street
- 2312-14 N.
Lincoln Ave, South half 1883, north half, 1887 (Chicago Landmark)
- Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company,
1899, State Street and Madison
Baumann and Huehl
Bradford Gilbert
Huehl and Schmid
Solon S. Beman
W. W. Boyington
(Several buildings in Joliet,
including the Joliet
Penitentiary)
Leroy Buffington
- Willoughby Building, 1887, northwest corner of
Jackson Blvd. and
Franklin
St.
Burnham
and Root
- The Montauk Block, 1881-82, 64-70 West Monroe
Street, destroyed.
- Calumet
Club House,
1881-1883, northeast corner of 20th and Michigan, destroyed by fire
- Sidney Kent House, 1882-83, 2944 South Michigan
Avenue (Chicago Landmark)
- Rialto Building, 1883-86, 132-148 West Van Buren;
destroyed
- Insurance Exchange Building, 1884-85, southwest
corner of LaSalle and
Adams,
destroyed
- McCormick Harvesting Machine Co, 1884-86,
southwest corner of Wacker
and
Jackson; destroyed.
- E. E. Ayer House, 1885-86; northeast corner of
State and Banks;
destroyed.
- Art
Institute (original)-later
the Chicago Club, 1885-87, southwest
corner
of Michigan and Van Buren, destroyed.
- Phenix Building, 1885-87, 111 West Jackson,
destroyed.
- Church of the Covenant, 1887, southeast corner of
Belden and Halsted;
destroyed
- The Rookery,
1885-86,
209 South LaSalle Street; designated a Chicago Landmark 1972
- Rand-McNally Building, 1888-1890, 165 West Adams,
destroyed.
- First
Regiment Armory, 1889-91, northwest corner of 16th and
Michigan;
destroyed.
- Great
Northern Hotel (originally the Chicago Hotel), 1890-92,
northeast
corner of Dearborn St. and Jackson Blvd., demolished in
1940.
- Ashland Block,
1891-92,
northeast corner of Clark and Randolph Streets, demolished in 1949.
- Monadnock
Block (original building) 1889-91, 53 West Jackson
Boulevard.
Designated a Chicago Landmark in 1973.
- Women's
Temple, 1891-92, southwest corner of LaSalle and Monroe
Streets,
demolished in 1926.
- Masonic
Temple,
1891-92, northeast corner of State and Randolph Streets, demolished in
1939.
- Union Stock Yards Entrance
D. H. Burnham and Company
- First
National
Bank Building, 1896, 38 South Dearborn Street
- Fisher
Building,
1895-96, 343 South Dearborn Street; designed Chicago Landmark 1978
- Marshall
Field ,
1902, block of State, Randolph, Wabash and Washington Streets
- Railway
Exchange
Building, 1903-4, northwest corner of Michigan Ave. and Jackson
Blvd.
- The
Heyworth
Building,
1905, southwest corner of Madison Street and Wabash Ave.
- The
People's
Gas
Company Building, 122 South Michigan Avenue, 1910
- Insurance
Exchange
Building (second),175 West Jackson Blvd, 1911
- Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company
(original structure, Louis Sullivan), 1903-3; 1906. Chicago Landmark
1970.
Cobb and Frost
Henry Ives Cobb
- Newberry
Library,
60 West Walton, 1892
- University
of Chicago
(original Tudor Buildings), 1892
- Old
Chicago Historical
Society Building, 632 N. Dearborn St, 1892
- Chicago Athletic Club, 12 South Michigan Avenue, 1912
- Chicago Varnish Company, completed 1895, 33 W. Kinzie St..
Designated a Chicago Landmark July 25, 2001
Frost and Granger
Holabird and Roche
- Monadnock
Block, south addition, 1893, northwest corner of Dearborn
and
Van Buren Streets. Designated a Chicago Landmark 1973.
- Tacoma
Building, 1887-89, northeast corner of LaSalle and Madison
Streets,
demolished in 1929
- City Hall,
1905-09,
and 1909-11; corner of LaSalle and Clark Streets; designated
Chicago
Landmark, 1982.
- Old Colony Building, 1893-94, 407 South Dearborn
Street; designated
Chicago
Landmark,1978
- Cable Building (Hoops Building), 1898-99,
southeast corner of Wabash
Ave.
and Jackson Boulevard, demolished 1961.
William
Le Baron Jenney
- Home Insurance Building, 1884-85, northeast
corner of LaSalle and Adams
Streets, demolished 1931
- The Fair
Store,
1890-91, north side of Adams Street from State to Dearborn
- Manhattan Building, 1889-91, 431 South Dearborn
Street; designated
Chicago
Landmark,1978
- Leiter II
Building
(originally Siegal, Cooper and Co), 1891; 400 South State Street at Van
Buren; Later occupied by Sears Roebuck & Co.;
designated
Chicago Landmark 1997
- The Central Y.M.C.A.
Building,
1892-93, 19
S. La Salle Street
- Luddington Building (American Book Company), 1891, 1104 S. Wabash
Ave, Chicago Landmark, 1991
John O. E. Pridmore
Henry Hobson Richardson
- Marshall Field Wholesale
Store, 1885-87,
block bounded
by Adams, Wells, Quincy and Franklin Streets, demolished in 1930.
Theodore Starrett
- Hyde Park Hotel, 1887-88, 1891, southwest corner
of Hyde Park Boulevard
and Lake Park Avenue; demolished in 1963.
Schmidt, Garden and Martin
Shipley, Rutan and Coolidge
Enock. Hill Turnock
- Brewster Apartments, 1893, northwest
corner of
Diversey Boulevard and
Pine
Grove Ave.
Clinton J. Warren
- Virginia
Hotel, 1889-90, formerly Leander McCormick Apartments,
at intersection of Ohio and Rush Streets; demolished
in 1929.
- Metropole
Hotel,
1891, northeast corner of Michigan Ave. and 23rd Street
- Michigan Hotel, 1891-92, northeast corner of
Michigan Ave. and Cermak
Road.
- Plaza Hotel, 1892, 1553 Clark Street.
- Congress
Hotel, 1892-93 (Holabird and Roche- 1902, 1907), 504 South
Michigan
Ave.
Wheelock and Thomas
- Delaware Building, 36
W. Randolph St., 1872-74 (Chicago Landmark)
- 18,
22, 28 S. Wabash Ave., 1875-77 (Chicago Landmark)
James J. Egan
- 40-52
E. Chicago Ave., 1882-83 (Chicago Landmark)
John Mills Van Osdel
McKim, Mead and
White
- 120 E. Bellevue Pl.,
1892, (Chicago Landmark, 1973)
Burling and Whitehouse
- 40 E. Erie St,
1883, Chicago Landmark 1977
Toussaint Menard; west addition,
John P. Huber
- 1076
W. Roosevelt Road, 1869; west addition 1874 (Chicago Landmark 1987)
Frederick E. Faber and William F.
Pagels
- 1215-25 W. 18th
St., 1892, Chicago Landmark 1989
L.B. Dixon
- 3140
S. Indiana Ave., 1887, Chicago Landmark, 1998
Frederick Ahlschlager
- 758 W.
North Ave, 1887. Designated Chicago Landmark 2001.
John T. Long
- 6565 S. Yale Ave,
1892-1893 (Chicago Landmark 2003)
Sources:
- The
Chicago
School of Architecture,
A History
of Commercial and Public Building in the Chicago Area, 1875-1925,
by
Carl W. Condit, published 1964
- Louis Sullivan, His
Life and Work, by
Robert
Twombly
- The Architecture of
John Wellborn Root,
by
Donald Hoffmann
- Chicago's Famous
Buildings, by Arthur
Siegel,
1969
- Burnham of Chicago,
by Thomas S.
Hines, 1979
- Chicago Street Guide,
published by
Rand McNally,
1941
- Lost Chicago, by
David Low, American
Legacy
Press-
1975
(through the notes of John Hub and David Daruszka)
- History of the
Development of Building
Construction
in Chicago, by Frank A. Randall, University of Illinois Press
(notes of David Daruszka)
- The Devil
In The White City, by Erik Larson, 2003
- Chicago,
A Personal History of Aremica's Most American City, by Finis
Farr, 1973
Websites:
... and, of course, the postcards themselves!
I have never been to Illinois (I live
near Atlanta,
GA), and have only become interested in 19th Century Chicago architects
through my collecting vintage Chicago postcards, and my subsequent love
affair with 19th century and early 20th century Chicago. If you
find
an errors in this information, kindly let me know and I will add a
postscript.
I have found several items which are confusing to me. Many
buildings erected in the 1880's were replaced by 1912, so there may be
existing postcards for two different buildings of the same name.
Some buildings had many "lives" and many names over the years. Whenever
possible, I compare with an actual photograph or lithograph of the
building.
Pat Sabin
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Chicago
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