A mature design by renowned
architect Henry Hobson Richardson, Glessner House
is famous for its site development, innovative floor
plan, and rugged Romanesque Revival-style facade.
The Ward W. Willits House is a building designed by
famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Designed in 1901
the Willits house is considered the first of the great
Prairie houses. Built in the Chicago suburb of Highland
Park, Illinois, the house presents a symmetrical facade
to the street, the plan is a cruciform with four wings
that extend out from a central hearth.
The Palmer House Hilton is a famous historical hotel
in downtown Chicago. There have been several Palmer
House Hotels in Chicago.
The first was built as a wedding present to Potter
Palmer's wife but burnt down in the Great Chicago
Fire despite being advertised as the World's only
Fire Proof Hotel.
The lavish Paradise Theater was an remarkable but
somewhat unsuccessful addition to the West Side amusement
scene which was opened in 1928 and Designed by renowned
theater architect John Eberson.
This enthralling building is a world-wide attraction
that features an art gallery, artisans shop, three
floors of restaurants and shops, and 13 floors of
balconies that surround the 160 foot rotunda. "Wait
until you see it... It is no less than breathtaking,"
wrote the Chicago Tribune's Pulitzer Prize-winning
architecture critic Paul Gapp about the James R.Thompson
Center.
Before 100 years, Frank Lloyd Wright sparked an architectural
revolution with the opening of his Oak Park studio.
The Robie House, built on the University of Chicago
campus in 1910, is one of two museum sites maintained
by The Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust.
Water Tower was built in 1869 and is Located in the
northern portion of the Magnificent Mile at Chicago
Avenue, the Chicago and is one of few buildings that
survived the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, due to its
construction of limestone blocks.
Sears Tower was the tallest building in the world
from 1973 to 1996. Today, it remains the tallest building
in North America, as the Petronas Towers in Malaysia
are now the world's tallest buildings. Built in 1973
and renovated in 1993, it sits on two city blocks
and rises one-quarter mile above the ground with 110
floors.
