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The architect was a recent immigrant from Britain named George Snell, who clearly made a name for himself, later entering a partnership with James R. The building’s upper six stories were residential, including the spectacular Oriental penthouse at the top, with retail space at the ground floor.

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The seven-story building of Quincy granite exhibited round arched windows and an interpretation of a belvedere at the roof which served as a penthouse. The Pagoda Building as it was named, was located on the corner of Washington and State Streets and was one of the tallest buildings on the street upon completion.

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51 museum and gallery, an archive of historically significant architectural artifacts and ephemera.Ĭhris Ware’s work has appeared in the MCA Chicago, the Whitney Museum of American Art and The New Yorker, and his books have been named year-end top ten fiction selections by the New York Times and Time magazine.For the last on this series of Lost Boston buildings, I present this little-known landmark which was once neighbors to the Old State House. Sullivan.Įric Nordstrom focuses on the documentation of historic building materials from commercial and residential construction he founded Urban Remains, an extensive and eclectic store of building materials in Chicago, and created the BLDG.

Since age seven his primary and long-term interest has been the story of Chicago’s architecture, especially the work of Louis H. Tim Samuelson is the administrator of his own lifetime architectural preservation archive, and is the City of Chicago’s cultural historian and former curator of architecture and design at the Chicago Historical Society. In 1961 he worked with Richard Nickel to salvage the Garrick Building’s ornament for the City of Chicago. He taught the history of architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology and has extensive experience in exhibition curation and design. John Vinci, FAIA, senior partner and practicing architect, Vinci/Hamp Architects, Inc., has been an architect in Chicago for more than sixty years. A seventy-two-page facsimile of Richard Nickel’s salvage workbook is tipped into the binding.

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Reconstructing the Garrick documents the enormous salvaging job undertaken to preserve elements of the building’s design, but also presents the full life story of the Garrick, featuring historic and architectural photographs, essays by prominent architectural and art historians, interviews, drawings, ephemera from throughout its lively history and details of its remarkable ornamentation-a significant resource and compelling tribute to one of Chicago’s finest lost buildings. The Garrick (originally the Schiller Building) was built in 1892 and featured elaborate embellishments, especially in its theater and exterior, including the ornamentation and colorful decorative stenciling that would become hallmarks of Louis Sullivan’s career. The building was replaced by a parking garage, and its demolition ignited the historic preservation movement in Chicago. For six months in 1961, Richard Nickel, John Vinci, and David Norris salvaged the interior and exterior ornamentation of the Garrick Theater, Adler & Sullivan’s magnificent architectural masterpiece in Chicago’s theater district.