Michigan Avenue from railroad yards

Open URL Michigan Avenue from railroad yards
  • Title Michigan Avenue from railroad yards
  • Creator Hunt, Jarvis; Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge; Holabird & Roche (Chicago, Ill.); Thielbar & Fugard; Giaver and Dinkleberg; Shaw, Metz and Associates; Burnham Bros.
  • 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
  • Iso Date 1897; 1914; 1920; 1926; 1929; 1962; 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.)
  • Community Area 32
  • Subject high-rise buildings; low-rise buildings; hotels (public accommodations); theaters; museums (buildings); libraries; commercial buildings; office buildings; streetscapes; railroad yards
  • Subject Vocabulary Scheme AAT
  • Language English
  • Language Code eng
  • Type Image
  • Form architecture
  • View Description general view
  • Physical Description 35 mm. slide
  • Slide Binder Book05
  • Slide Accession Number 5-8-I
  • 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 bru005_08_iF
  • Item Url http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/u?/uic_bru,679
  • 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.