Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building

Louis Sullivan is regarded highly by historians and architects as a pioneer in American commercial architecture. As an exemplary model of his work, the Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building showcases his philosophy of form following function. Built in 1899 ...

St. Michael's Cemetery

St. Michael's Cemetery was developed on the distant outskirts of the Spanish colonial city of Pensacola. Formally surveyed by the Spanish in 1807, St. Michael's Cemetery may have been used as a burial ground as early as the mid-1700s.

Preliminary ...

Old Chicago Public Library

Influenced by the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, the first permanent home of the Chicago Public Library was designed in the Beaux Arts style by the Boston architectural firm of Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge. It was constructed between 1893 and 1897 ...

Reid Murdoch Building

The Reid Murdoch Building, designed in 1913-1914 by George C. Nimmons, was constructed as a food processing company and warehouse. The seven-story building, which sits on the Chicago River, has a three-story clock tower rising from the center of its ...

Tree Studio Complex

The Tree Studio Complex is a group of three buildings comprising the original Tree Studio, built in 1894, and the Ontario and Ohio Street Annexes, two additions built in 1912-1913. They were erected by Lambert Tree to provide low cost ...

National Historic Landmark - Montgomery Ward & Company Building

Since 1909, the Montgomery Ward and Company Complex, situated along the North Branch of the Chicago River, has served as national headquarters for the country's oldest mail order firm.

The two earliest buildings, the old Administration Building and the Mail Order ...

James Charnley House

Built in 1892, the James Charnley House has been widely recognized internationally for over half a century as an important work of modern architecture. It is one of the few major residential commissions realized by Louis Sullivan.

The house is ...

Albert F. Madlener House

One of the most prominent residential buildings represented by the second generation of the Chicago School architects is the Albert F. Madlener House.

Designed by Hugh Garden, the house faces Burton St. with an off center front door. Three stories ...

Presidio Santa Maria de Galve

Spain established Presidio Santa Maria de Galve on a high bluff overlooking Pensacola Bay in 1698 to ward off French encroachment into Florida from Mobile to the west.

The Presidio consisted of a fort called Fort San Carlos de Austria, a ...

The Kennison Boulder

The 1852 funeral for David Kennison was the most elaborate Chicago had ever seen. The City paid all expenses, and donated 2 cemetery lots, intending to erect a monument on his grave. That never happened.

The legend of his exploits ...