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Glen Miller posted
The Santa Fe Building was built in 1903-04 and was built as the Railway Exchange Building. Santa Fe later purchased the building and erected the rooftop sign. The building is now owned by the University of Notre Dame. which removed Santa Fe's sign and replaced it with a Motorola sign in 2012. The iconic sign is now at the Illinois Railway Museum. Wouldn't it be cool to have an office with a porthole window!
Jeff Grunewald: Terra cotta cladding by Northwestern Terra Cotta at Wrightwood & Clybourn.
John Morgan: I read somewhere that Daniel Burnham had his office behind one of those porthole windows. Great view of the lakefront.
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Eric J. Nordstrom posted
street level photographic image (scanned from original glass negative) of d.h. burnham & co.'s railway exchange building (1904) as it appeared around 1909, during the chicago electrical show - an exhibit of the commonwealth edison company of chicago.
the ground floor of the building housed "the electric shop," which was designed to showcase everything electrical for the household.
courtesy of the bldg. 51 archive.
Dan Schmidt: Now owned By The University of Notre Dame .
J.D. Sutphin: I believe I read that around this period Daniel Burnham had his office on the top floor where the big round windows are so that he could look out onto the parks and lake for inspiration. He was just an amazing human being.
John Gronkowski: very weird distortion...the camera must not have had a back that could swing...but the vignetting shows that the lens had a pretty narrow image circle so that might have been a factor.
Arnold Cohen: John Gronkowski what distortion are you referring to? I'm not seeing it.
John Gronkowski: The base of the building is pretty much level but the roofline is on an angle...it's what we call the "ship's prow" effect in architectural photography. There are times when you can use view camera movements to make the verticals look square but if you're not lined up with the exact center of the building you will get this effect. If your camera has a back that can be turned on its vertical axis (swing) you can eliminate or at least moderate the effect. You have to look at it critically to see how much adjustment makes it look normal to the observer's eye because too much might make it look unnatural. If you have access to the old five volume Ansel Adams series of books there's a great series of photos that explain all of the adjustments involved....should be pages 176-189 in the first book, Camera And Lens. It's a good, brief explanation of correcting perspective in a photograph and he does point out that too much correction can look weird. Now....with digital cameras and Photoshop that's all pretty much ancient history but it's till pretty interesting from an academic point of view. |
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Eric J. Nordstrom posted
original 8 x 10 chicago architectural photographing company photographic print of michigan avenue (looking south) taken shortly after graham, anderson, probst and white's straus building was completed in 1924. d.h. burnham and company's 17-story cream-colored terra cotta-clad railway exchange building in foreground (north of straus) was completed in 1904. courtesy of bldg. 51 archive. |
Sharon Avendano
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The Railway Exchange Building on Michigan Ave."
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Patrick McNamara commented on Sharon's post
The Railway Exchange Building - top held Daniel Burnham's office, seen stage right. Photo from the 1950s. |
I didn't realize until I saw this 1905 image that it was significantly taller than the other buildings of its day. It makes sense when you consider the wealth of the railroads during the interesting turn of the century.
By 1915, it was just one of a row of skyscrapers along Michigan Avenue. I put a red rectangle around its round windows that are peaking through a gap in the buildings. The land between Michigan Avenue and the Illinois Central tracks has finally been filled in. And to the right of the red rectangle, we can see the tower of
Montgomery Ward's 1899 Headquarters.
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Zachary Taylor Davis - Chicago Architect posted
This is D. H. Burnham & Company’s (1903) Railway Exchange Building at 224 S. Michigan Ave., c. 1910-1915. The building was designed by Frederick P. Dinkelberg, and when the building opened in 1904 Burnham & Co. moved it’s offices to the fourteenth floor - Burnham's descendants continued ownership in the building until 1952.
A skylit lobby with a grand staircase occupies the bottom two floors under the atrium. The shops and restaurants are all accessible through the lobby as well as the street. The building's original saloon, including its mural scenes of ancient Rome, survived as a private conference room through the occupancy of the Chicago Architecture Foundation on the first floor. (Chicago Architecture Foundation, now the Chicago Architecture Center, moved to 111 E. Wacker Drive in August of 2018.)
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Baron Redus commented on Todd's share
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