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 |
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| Coverage-Spatial | The Loop (Chicago, Ill.) |
| Coverage-Temporal | 1860-1869 |
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| 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 | |
| Collection Title | Picture Chicago |
| Collection | Picture Chicago |
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