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Delaware Building (Chicago, Illinois)

USA / Illinois / Chicago / Chicago, Illinois / West Randolph Street, 36
 building, landmark

Year Built: 8-story building erected in 1872-1874; 1889, two-story addition and atrium
Architects: Wheelock & Thomas,Julius H. Huber

One of the few Loop structures surviving from the massive rebuilding that followed the Fire of 1871, this Italianate-style building features a cast-iron base topped with a precast concrete facade on its upper floors. An 1889 remodeling made it competitive with newer and larger commercial buildings by adding two floors, a dramatic steel-framed interior atrium, and redesigning the first two floors.
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Coordinates:   41°53'4"N   87°37'45"W
This article was last modified 14 years ago