Great Northern Hotel and Great Northern Office and Theatre Company Building
- Title:
- Great Northern Hotel and Great Northern Office and Theatre Company Building
- Collection:
- Andrew Dickson White Architectural Photographs Collection
- Creator:
- D. H. Burnham and Company (American architectural firm, active 1891-1912)
Burnham and Root (American architectural firm, established 1873, dissolved 1891)
- Creation Date:
- 1895-1896 (Office and Theatre building)
ca. 1896 (photograph)
1890-1892 (Great Northern Hotel)
- Location:
- Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States
- Country:
- United States
- ID Number:
- 10035004
- Accession Number:
- 15/5/3090.00151
- Collection Number:
- 15-5-3090
- File Name:
- 10035004.jpg
- Style/Period:
- Chicago School
- Materials/Techniques:
- albumen prints
- Subject:
- Architecture
business districts
cityscapes (representations)
cityscapes (representations)
streetscapes
oriel windows
trefoils (geometric motifs)
Chicago, Illinois
Hotels (public accommodations)
office buildings
Great Northern Hotel, Chicago, Illinois
Great Northern Office and Theatre Company Building, Chicago, Illinois
Construction views
photographs - Measurement:
- 23.8125 x 18.5 (centimeters)
- Description:
- The building just visible on the left is the Great Northern Hotel, designed by Daniel Burnham & John W. Root. The fourteen-story building stood at the northeast corner of the intersection of Dearborn Street and Jackson Boulevard from 1892 to 1940. After Root's death in 1891, Daniel B urnham built the adjoining Great Northern Office and Theatre Building (which is the focus of this image) at 20 W. Jackson Blvd. The two buildings together formed a connected half block structure and enclosed the largest interior court in Chicago. The Great Northern Office and Theatre Building was al so demolished, in 1961, for the federal office building. (Source: Carl Condit, The Chicago School of Architecture, 1964, pp.101-109)
- Source:
- Data from: A.D. White Architectural Photographs, Cornell University Library
http://cidc.library.cornell.edu/adw/albumen.htm - Cite As:
- Andrew Dickson White Architectural Photograph Collection, #15-5-3090. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- Andrew Dickson White architectural photograph collection
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The images in this collection are in the public domain and are believed to have no known U.S. copyright or other restrictions. The Library does not charge for permission to use these materials and does not grant or deny permission to publish or otherwise distribute them. However, as a good scholarly practice we recommend that all patrons cite the Library as the source of the reproduction. For a more detailed explanation please read the Library Guidelines for Using Public Domain Text, Images, Audio, and Video Reproduced from Cornell University Library Collections at http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/CULCopyright.