The Rookery Building

Built in 1888, the Rookery Building was named in honor of the former temporary City Hall where many of the city's birds made their nests. The 11-story office building, designed by the architectural firm of Burnham and Root, features cast-iron ...

The Rookery Building

Built in 1888, the Rookery Building was named in honor of the former temporary City Hall where many of the city's birds made their nests.

The 11-story office building, designed by the architectural firm of Burnham and Root, features cast-iron ...

Rookery Building

Burnham and Root, architects

Chicago Landmark

Its powerful exterior softened by John Root’s lively ornament, the Rookery typifies the 1880s’ lingering picturesque attitude toward commercial architecture. A transitional structure in the evolution of modern architecture, it employs both masonry wall-bearing and skeletal ...