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| Title | Michigan Avenue from railroad yards |
| Creator | Hunt, Jarvis
Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge
Holabird & Roche (Chicago, Ill.)
Thielbar & Fugard, and Giaver and Dinkleberg
Shaw, Metz and Associates
Burnham Bros.
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| Description | View from the railroad yard where Millennium Park is now located, looking toward Michigan Avenue. In the front row of buildings are, from left to right, the Michigan Boulevard Building (formerly Michigan Avenue National Bank Building), the Chicago Cultural Center, the John Crerar Library and the Carbide & Carbon Building. Behind those rise the United Insurance Building (now Unitrin Building) and 35 East Wacker Drive (formerly Pure Oil Building, North American Life Building, Jewelers Building). |
| Notes | Photograph credit: Brubaker, C. William, 1968 |
| Date | 1897 (Chicago Cultural Center); 1914 (Michigan Boulevard Building); 1920 (John Crerar Library); 1926 (35 East Wacker); 1929 (Carbide & Carbon Building); 1962 (United Insurance Building) |
| Geographic coverage | Loop (Chicago, Ill.)
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| Community Area Number | 32 |
| Subject | high-rise buildings
low-rise buildings
hotels (public accommodations)
theaters
museums (buildings)
libraries
commercial buildings
office buildings
streetscapes
railroad yards
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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 | bru005_08_iF
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