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| Title | Industrial areas along the North Branch of the Chicago River |
| Creator | Schmidt, Garden & Martin
Yamasaki, Minoru, 1912-1986
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| Description | View northwest along the North Branch of the Chicago River from the Holiday Inn Mart Plaza Hotel (350 W. Mart Center Drive). The West Grand Avenue bridge, and the Ohio Street bridge directly behind it, span the river. A tugboat with a barge attached is moored along the west bank of the river, adjacent to an industrial area. A number of industrial buildings, including the Wallace Press Building, and Kirchheimer Brothers Paper Company (417 West Ohio Street) stand along North Kingsbury Street on the east side of the river. The Montgomery Ward Catalog and Retail Sales building (Mail Order House) and the Montgomery Ward Administration building are further north, along the east bank of the river. Both of these buildings are now converted to condominiums, office space, and restaurant space. The Montgomery Ward & Company Headquarters tower (now The Montgomery condominiums, 535 West Chicago Avenue/ 500 West Superior Street) rises to their right. On the far left of the image, multiple railroad tracks are visible. |
| Notes | Photo credit: Brubaker, C. William, 1978 |
| Date | 1908 (Montgomery Ward Catalog and Retail Sales building); 1972 (Montgomery Ward headquarters) |
| Geographic coverage | Near North Side (Chicago, Ill.)
West Town (Chicago, Ill.)
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| Community Area Number | 8; 24 |
| Subject | cityscapes
industrial districts
industrial buildings
commercial buildings
printing plants
warehouses
office buildings
rivers
riverfronts
watercraft
bridges (built works)
parking lots
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| Language | English
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| Type | Image
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| Form | architecture
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| View Description | aerial view |
| Physical Description | 35 mm. slide |
| Collection | C. William Brubaker Collection (University of Illinois at Chicago)
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| Repository | University of Illinois at Chicago. Library. [Visual Resources]. |
| Citation | Cite as [creator]. [title]. [file name]. [collection]. |
| Rights | The University of Illinois at Chicago College of Architecture and the Arts holds reproduction and licensing rights. For more information, please email: lib-permissions@uic.edu. |
| Downloads | Downloads of larger files for this image are available from the C. William Brubaker set in the UIC Library Flickr collections at http://www.flickr.com/photos/uicdigital/sets/72157625021131144/. |
| File Name | bru009_02_bF |
