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| Title | West Wacker drive high-rises |
| Creator | Holabird & Root
Graham, Anderson, Probst & White
Burnham Brothers
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| Description | View from West Kinzie Street looking across Wolf Point towards high-rises along West Wacker Drive. Part of the Merchandise Mart is visible on the extreme left of the image; North Orleans Street runs in front of it. To the right of the Merchandise Mart, the LaSalle-Wacker Building is partially visible. Next on the right, near the center of the image, is 222 North LaSalle (Builders Building). Next to the right is the Engineering Building (205 West Wacker). The Central YMCA College (now 211 West Wacker, originally the Chicago Evening Post Building) is on the far right of the photograph. |
| Notes | Photo credit: Brubaker, C. William, 1972 |
| Date | 1927 (Builder's Building, 222 North LaSalle); 1928 (Engineering Building, 205 West Wacker); 1928 (211 West Wacker); 1930 (LaSalle-Wacker Building) |
| Geographic coverage | Near North Side (Chicago, Ill.)
Loop (Chicago, Ill.)
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| Community Area Number | 8; 32 |
| Subject | high-rise buildings
office buildings
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 | general 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_03_pF |
