Architectural Styles

Chicago School

Alt names / subperiods 

Timeline

Distinguishing Features

Geographic Presence

Commercial

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1880-1910

  • Tall steel-frames
  • Large Plate Glass Windows,
  • flat roofs
  • Vertical Emphasis
  • Simplified Ornamentation
  • USA
  • Chicago
  • NYC
  • St Louis
  • San Francisco

Common Building Types

Landmark buildings

Historic Accommodation Types

Custom Hotel Examples

  • Skyscrapers
  • office buildings
  • warehouses
  • banks
  • retail
  • Chicago
  • Home Insurance Building
  • Monadnock Building South Half
  • Rookery Building
  • Chicago Board of Trade Building
  • Masonic Temple Building
  • Carson, Pirie, Scott and Co Building,
  • Fisher Building
  • Leiter I Building
  • Auditorium Building
  • Ludington Building; Marquette Building
  • Gage Buildings
  • Heyworth Building
  • Brooks Building
  • Transportation Building
  • Wainwright Building St Louis
  • Goodspeed Brothers Building Grand Rapids MI
  • Prudential (Guaranty) Building Buffalo
  • Union Bank tower Winnipeg, Manitoba
  • Consultancy House, Dunedin, New Zealand
  • Nicholas Building Melbourne.
  • Grand hotels
  • Commercial/business hotels
  • Residential hotels
  • Rooming houses / SROs
  • Boarding houses
  • apartment hotels
  • Railway/railroad hotels
  • Hotels in Commercial buildings
  • La Salle Hotel Chicago, Illinois
  • Auditorium Building 1889 mixed-use building (designed by Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler)

Adaptive Reuse

  • Silversmith Hotel — Chicago, Illinois
  • The Alise / Staypineapple Hotel adapted in former Reliance Building Chicago

Landmarks

Adapted Visitor Accommodation

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