Greetings From Chicago: Architectural Vistas through a Visitor’s Eyes
Greetings From Chicago: Architectural Vistas through a Visitor’s Eyes
After the 1871 Chicago Fire, the city rose from the ashes to become the transportation and commercial Gateway to the American West. Builders, dreamers,
and travelers had flocked to the Windy City, creating the skyscrapers and thoroughfares that would come to define the transportation capital of the North American continent. This program showcases the builders who created the architectural vistas seen by millions of visitors.
Since the dawn of the railroad era, Jackson Boulevard in Chicago’s Loop was a haven for visitors coming to the Windy City. The thoroughfare’s proximity to five passenger rail stations made it an ideal place for hotels, and the city’s architects were employed in building them. In time the Route 66 corridor would utilize both Jackson and Adams Streets, and travelers using the highway were treated to views of some of the masterpieces of Chicago School architecture.
Greetings From Chicago: Architectural Vistas through a Visitor’s Eyes explores the architecture of this important travel corridor. Included are views and discussions of W. W. Boyington’s Grand Pacific and Stratford Hotels, William Le Baron Jenney’s Fair Store, the Rookery and Monadnock buildings of Daniel Burnham and John Root, and the Marquette building of William Holabird and Martin Roche.
Other designers and firms whose work is discussed in the presentation include Graham, Anderson, Probst & White, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and Phillip Johnson. The information and images in this program is based upon an award-winning series of articles that has appeared in the quarterly publication of the National Historic Route 66 Federation since 2007.
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