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Chicago: 1943, 11:35

April 1943. South Water Street freight depot of the Illinois Central Railroad at Chicago. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano.

April 1943. South Water Street freight depot of the Illinois Central Railroad at Chicago. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano.

 

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Crerar Library

The gray building was the John Crerar Library at Michigan & Randolph, just north of the city library. Opened May 1921 with "seven stack floors, two reading rooms and commercial space." Library moved to IIT in 1962, then to U of C in 1984, where it is today. Postcard here, in the third row.

An unfamiliar facade

Does anyone know the name of the gray building with arched upper windows in front of the domed Jewelers' building?

Chicago

Well, it hasn't been a golf course for nearly a decade. The eastern part is now nearly full of apartment buildings. But the part seen in the photo was developed as office buildings in the early 1970s.

New Life for Carbon & Carbide

This landmark is now the Hard Rock Hotel!

http://www.hardrockhotelchicago.com/accommodations/history

Domed Building

The domed building behind 203 N. Wabash is 35 E. Wacker Drive, usually referred to as "The Jewelers' Building." For the first fourteen years of the building's life it contained a 22-story car lift inside its core. Delivery vehicles would enter on Lower Wacker Drive and ride up to jewelry merchants to make safe transfers. The building is featured in scenes from 2005's "Batman Begins", with Batman perched on one of the turrets rising at the corner of the dome's base.

Carbon & Carbide Building

The black (actually green) building to the left of the Pabst sign is the Carbon & Carbide Building, built in 1929 by Burnham Brothers architects. It is beautiful in the sunlight. A few cool facts:

The base is covered in black polished granite, and the tower is a dark green terra cotta accented with gold terra cotta.

According to legend the building was designed to resemble a dark green champagne bottle.

Because of this building's success, its architects were commissioned to design the Cuneo Building two blocks away, which would have been the tallest in Chicago if the Great Depression had not resulted in the project's cancellation.

The color scheme is similar to The Bryant Park Hotel with its dark facade and gold highlights.

The ground floor was originally designed to display products of the Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation's subsidiaries whose offices were in the building.

Now...

...it's a golf course: http://tinyurl.com/2z29tf

Amazing that the signage on 203 N. Wabash is so visible nearly a mile away!

Mmmmmm, 33 Fine Brews...

Blended to Make ONE Great Beer.

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