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| Title | View of parking lots and buildings on the Near North Side |
| Creator | Schmidt, Garden & Erikson
Arpen Group
Vagnieres, Robert, Sr.
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| Description | View to the northeast towards the Veteran's Administration Research Hospital (later V.A. Lakeside Medical Center, now demolished) from the southern end of North Saint Clair Street, with parking lots in foreground. The hospital, formerly located at 333 East Huron Street, occupied the block bounded by East Huron, North McClurg, East Erie, and North Fairbanks Court. On the extreme right of the image is the Holiday Inn Chicago City Centre (now Doubletree Hotel Chicago Magnificent Mile). On the left of the image is the now-demolished Underwriters Laboratories building, with the high-rises at 230 and 233 East Ontario Street behind it. |
| Notes | Photograph credit: Brubaker, C. William, 1976 |
| Date | 1903 (Underwriters Laboratories building); 1953-1955 (VA Lakeside Hospital); 1968 (230 East Ontario); 1971 (233 East Ontario); 1975 (Holiday Inn Chicago City Centre); 1976 |
| Geographic coverage | Near North Side (Chicago, Ill.)
Streeterville (Chicago, Ill.)
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| Community Area Number | 8 |
| Subject | streetscapes
high-rise buildings
health facilities
hospitals
parking lots
commercial buildings
office buildings
residential structures
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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 | bru007_03_pF
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