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Merchants Insurance Company building
Chicago. A hand book for strangers & tourists to the city of Chicago

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Title
Merchants Insurance Company building
Creator
Baker, Chicago  
Description
From text: "One of the most stately and beautiful edifices in the United States, is the new building of the Merchants Insurance company of Chicago, on the northwest corner of LaSalle and Washington streets. It is five stories in height, and has a frontage of ninety-six and one-third feet on LaSalle street, and a frontage of one hundred and eleven and a half feet on Washington street. Both the front elevations are built of magnesium limestone, from Athens, of which so many of our best buildings are made. ... The style of the architecture is the modified Italian, such variations having been made as are necessary to adapt it to the rigor of our climate."
Date
1869  
Type
Photograph  
File Name
chicagohandbookf00chic_raw_0106.jp2
Source Page
http://www.archive.org/stream/chicagohandbookf00chic#page/104/mode/1up
Link to the Full-Text
http://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:chicagohandbookf00chic
Subject
  • Office buildings  
  • Insurance companies  
Coverage-Spatial
The Loop (Chicago, Ill.)  
Coverage-Temporal
1860-1869  
Publisher
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  
  • University of Illinois at Chicago  
Rights
No Copyright - United States
Rights Description
Images in this collection were digitized through the University of Illinois Library's participation in the Open Content Alliance and may be used freely. Attribution to the University of Illinois is appreciated. High-resolution images can be downloaded from the Internet Archive at www.archive.org. For further information, contact dcc@library.uiuc.edu.
Book Title
  • Chicago. A hand book for strangers & tourists to the city of Chicago  
  • containing historical retrospect ... descriptions of the public buildings, churches  
Collection Title
Picture Chicago
Collection
Picture Chicago
TitleMerchants Insurance Company building
CreatorBaker, Chicago  
DescriptionFrom text: "One of the most stately and beautiful edifices in the United States, is the new building of the Merchants Insurance company of Chicago, on the northwest corner of LaSalle and Washington streets. It is five stories in height, and has a frontage of ninety-six and one-third feet on LaSalle street, and a frontage of one hundred and eleven and a half feet on Washington street. Both the front elevations are built of magnesium limestone, from Athens, of which so many of our best buildings are made. ... The style of the architecture is the modified Italian, such variations having been made as are necessary to adapt it to the rigor of our climate."
Date1869  
TypePhotograph  
File Namechicagohandbookf00chic_raw_0106.jp2
Source Pagehttp://www.archive.org/stream/chicagohandbookf00chic#page/104/mode/1up
Link to the Full-Texthttp://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:chicagohandbookf00chic
Subject
  • Office buildings  
  • Insurance companies  
Coverage-SpatialThe Loop (Chicago, Ill.)  
Coverage-Temporal1860-1869  
Publisher
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  
  • University of Illinois at Chicago  
RightsNo Copyright - United States
Rights DescriptionImages in this collection were digitized through the University of Illinois Library's participation in the Open Content Alliance and may be used freely. Attribution to the University of Illinois is appreciated. High-resolution images can be downloaded from the Internet Archive at www.archive.org. For further information, contact dcc@library.uiuc.edu.
Book Title
  • Chicago. A hand book for strangers & tourists to the city of Chicago  
  • containing historical retrospect ... descriptions of the public buildings, churches  
Collection TitlePicture Chicago
CollectionPicture Chicago

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