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Co-operative Apartment Building for Hammond Street, Chicago, Ill., a rendering; Frazier, Blouke & Hubbard, Architects
This rendering of an apartment "building"--an elemental parti or plan showing two buildings linked by a gateway--is a variation on a Georgian vocabulary, incorporating also French elements (Mansard roofs and segmental arched window tops). It appears…
Hotel--Beach and Park Place, Atlantic City, New Jersey; Charles H. Roberts, architect: an example of a tall classic or Georgian style building, with a lantern on top in the Wrenn manner.
This is a quite tall building, classically planned and detailed, and also with a lantern on top in the manner of 17th C. English architect Christopher Wrenn. The lantern on the top is not unlike that atop the north tower of Market Square, Lake…
Phildelphia apartment building, appearing in The Year Book of the Annual Architectural Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1929.
This is a photograph of a tall Georgian style apartment building, 400 South 15th Street, appearing in The Year Book of the Annual Architectural Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1929 (Philadelphia: 32nd Joint Exhibition Board of the American Institute of…
Kalo Shop Building, Chicago, Lowe and Bollenbacher, architects; an example of Georgian vertical style
This photo image appears in The Chicago Architectural Exhibition League's Year Book... and Catalogue of the Thirty-seventh Annual Exhibition, 1924 (Chicago: the League, 1924), unpaginated. The jury of admission included Walter Frazier, Chester…
University of Illinois library rendering, Georgian style: Charles M. White, archit., Charles A. Platt, associated, Champaign-Urbana, IL
This rendering of the original library building of the University of Illinois appears in The Chicago Architctural Exhibition League's Year Book... and Catalogue of the Thirty-seventh Annual Exhibition, 1924 (Chicago: the League, 1924).
Charles A.…
State Tuberculosis Sanitarium, Mount Alto, Pennsylvania
This hospital reflects roots in the classicism of Wrenn's 1694 Royal Naval Hospital at Greenwich, near London, England. It is from a 1939 book on projects of the 1930s Public Works Administration, and does not cite the name of the architect. The…
Hospital design by Cass Gilbert (New York), in the manner of Wrenn, for a competition for the Peter Bent Brigham Hosp.
This design of Cass Gilbert's, appearing in the American Architectural League's 25th annual exhibition volume, 1910, shows influence of Christopher Wrenn's classic Royal Naval Hospital at Greenwich (England, near London), 17th C. This, in turn,…
Lake Forest Academy building, 1865-1879, College weeklyStentorphoto, 1906
This is a photograph reproduced in The Stentor, Lake Forest College, May 3, 1906 (v. 20, no. 25), [289], showing the Lake Forest Academy building as it appeared after its 1865 expansion. It burned in 1879. This building also incubated the original…
Lake Forest Academy building, 1865-1879, with Baker engraving, 1869
This engraving appears on p. 1 of a 4-page 1869 circular for Lake Forest Academy, boys' preparatory school, and the new then Ferry Hall, ladies' seminary and girls' preparatory school.
The enraving appears to be signed "Baker", very likely W. D.…
Lake Forest Academy Reid Hall interior stairway
This is a photograph of the stairway of the 1893 Pond & Pond designed Reid Hall, Lake Forest Academy.
Location is the "Lake Forest Academy" subject file, Lake Forest College archives.