University Club of Chicago - Chicago, IL
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N 41° 52.865 W 087° 37.457
16T E 448202 N 4636761
This Gothic Revival high-rise was completed in 1909 and is often called the first Gothic skyscraper.
Waymark Code: WM13GWM
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 12/12/2020
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The current home of the University Club of Chicago, this building was designed by famed Chicago architects Holabird & Roche. It was begun in 1907 and completed in 1909. Although unusual for a skyscraper, the neo-Gothic style was considered appropriate for the club's academic clientele. "Holabird & Roche borrowed heavily from Magdalen College, Oxford, for the building’s details and ornament, and the additive nature of “Elizabethan Gothic” allowed them to create a facade along Monroe Street that was quite irregular for the day, representing accurately the program behind it. Dining rooms, game rooms, a small hotel, and recreational facilities all found their expression on this facade in windows of different size, material, or composition, making the facade programatically, if not tectonically, expressive." (
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The large stained-glass windows on the uppermost stories of the building house Cathedral Hall, a dramatic event space.
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