River Hotel / Club Quarters Hotel Chicago Wacker at Michigan (Chicago, Illinois)
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East Wacker Drive, 75
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www.chicagoriverhotel.com/
521-foot, 41-story neo-gothic building completed in 1928 as the Mather Tower to a design by Herbert Hugh Riddle. The lower levels contain the River Hotel, while the upper stories of the extremely narrow office tower have been converted into a Club Quarters Hotel. Mather Tower has the smallest floorplates of any major Chicago skyscraper.
This building is Chicago's most slender skyscraper, a "Jazz Age" silhouette against the city's dramatic skyline. Clad in Gothic-inspired terra cotta, Mather Tower is one of Chicago's finest "Modernistic" skyscrapers, combining modern form with lush historic ornament both in its exterior and interior. The form of this "needle" skyscraper was encouraged by the 1923 Chicago Zoning Ordinance which called for tall, slender, "setback" towers. Mather Tower's design-a tower with many shallow setbacks rising to a height of over 500 feet-epitomizes the verticality possible under this pioneering zoning ordinance.
www.chicagoriverhotel.com/
521-foot, 41-story neo-gothic building completed in 1928 as the Mather Tower to a design by Herbert Hugh Riddle. The lower levels contain the River Hotel, while the upper stories of the extremely narrow office tower have been converted into a Club Quarters Hotel. Mather Tower has the smallest floorplates of any major Chicago skyscraper.
This building is Chicago's most slender skyscraper, a "Jazz Age" silhouette against the city's dramatic skyline. Clad in Gothic-inspired terra cotta, Mather Tower is one of Chicago's finest "Modernistic" skyscrapers, combining modern form with lush historic ornament both in its exterior and interior. The form of this "needle" skyscraper was encouraged by the 1923 Chicago Zoning Ordinance which called for tall, slender, "setback" towers. Mather Tower's design-a tower with many shallow setbacks rising to a height of over 500 feet-epitomizes the verticality possible under this pioneering zoning ordinance.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mather_Tower
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Coordinates: 41°53'15"N 87°37'31"W
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