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a tall building sitting in the middle of a street next to tall buildings with windows

ch 21- Reliance Building (1895), 3/4 view, 32 North State Street, Chicago. Chicago School design by Charles B. Atwood (1849-1896) of Chicago's D.H. Burnham & Co. • first skyscraper with plate glass windows a majority of building's surface area now houses Hotel Burnham • after years of neglect, deteriorating building rescued by City of Chicago and renovated, 1994

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an old brick building with a red door

built to convince visiting artists working at the 1893 Columbian Exposition to make Chicago their permanent residence • compound built in 3 stages 1894-1913 • Queen Anne main building designed by Parfitt Brothers, with Bauer & Hill, Chicago • English Arts and Crafts style annexes designed by Hill & Woltersdorf, completed 1912 & 1913 • property had been backyard of Judge Lambert Tree, civic leader, great-grandfather of model Penelope Tree (other great-grandfather was retailer Marshall Field)…

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