Access to North Lake Shore Drive at East Grand Avenue

Open URL Access to North Lake Shore Drive at East Grand Avenue
  • Title Access to North Lake Shore Drive at East Grand Avenue
  • Creator Mundie, Jensen, Bourke & Havens; Ahlschlager, Walter W.; Harry Weese and Associates
  • Description View to west along East Grand Avenue where it crosses underneath North Lake Shore Drive. A large sign marks the access ramp for North Lake Shore Drive. The front facade of the Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corporation building (510 Peshtigo Court) is visible immediately behind North Lake Shore Drive. This building, demolished in 2003, was used by the Police Department at the time of the photograph. To its right, part of the Medinah Club Building (now Hotel InterContinental, 505 North Michigan Avenue) is visible. The Time-Life Building (541 North Fairbanks Court) is visible on the right. A corner of the ground-level part of Lake Point Tower is visible on the left of the image.
  • Notes Photograph credit: Brubaker, C. William, 1986
  • Iso Date 1986
  • Date 1929 (Medinah Club building); 1938 (Kraft-Phenix Cheese Co. Building); 1968-1970 (Time-Life Building); 1986
  • Geographic Coverage Near North Side (Chicago, Ill.); Gold Coast (Chicago, Ill.);
  • Community Area 8
  • Subject streetscapes; signage; elevated roads
  • Subject Vocabulary Scheme AAT
  • Language English
  • Language Code eng
  • Type Image
  • Form architecture
  • View Description general view
  • Physical Description 35 mm. slide
  • Slide Binder Book07
  • Slide Accession Number 7-6-Q
  • Collection C. William Brubaker Collection (University of Illinois at Chicago)
  • Repository University of Illinois at Chicago. Library. [Visual Resources].
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  • Local Identifier bru007_06_qF
  • Item Url http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/u?/uic_bru,547
  • Digital Collection C. William Brubaker 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.