|
| Title | Site for Dearborn Park residential development |
| Creator | Graham, Anderson, Probst & White
Eidlitz, Cyrus L. W.
Alschuler, Alfred S.
Marshall and Fox
|
| Description | View looking northeast from South Clark Street at the site for the first phase of the Dearborn Park residential development. Loop high-rises, including the CNA Plaza (now CNA Center, 333 South Wabash Avenue) are visible on the left side of the photograph; the clock tower of Dearborn Station is visible at the far left. The Harrison Hotel Electric Garage (615 South Wabash Avenue), with its rooftop sign, stands near the center. The rear facade of the Blackstone Hotel (now Renaissance Blackstone Hotel, 636 South Michigan Avenue) with its curved mansard roof, is visible further to the right. At the far right of the photograph, the sign for the Y.M.C.A. Hotel (826 South Wabash) is visible. |
| Notes | Brubaker, C. William, 1977 |
| Date | 1885 (Dearborn Station); 1910 (Blackstone Hotel); 1930 (Harrison Hotel Electric Garage); 1972 (CNA Plaza) |
| Geographic coverage | Loop (Chicago, Ill.)
|
| Community Area Number | 32 |
| Subject | urban development
urban planning
high-rise buildings
hotels (public accommodations)
transportation buildings
railroad terminals
|
| Language | English
|
| Type | Image
|
| Form | architecture
|
| View Description | general view |
| Physical Description | 35 mm. slide |
| Collection | C. William Brubaker Collection (University of Illinois at Chicago)
|
| 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 | bru012_02_gF |
