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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 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.
Lake Forest Academy campus, then west of the City of Lake Forest, ca. early 1950s
This plan, separately printed, shows the Lake Forest Academy campus after the institution moved in 1948 to the former J. Ogden Armour estate, then west of the city limits of Lake Forest (now annexed). This layout appears to show the campus while work…
Lake Forest Academy's Reid Hall, 1893-1946
This is an Inland Architect and News Recordphotograph of the just completed Reid Hall, 1893, for Lake Forest Academy on its new campus, and facing north to Rosemary Road. The architects were Pond & Pond, Irving K. Pond, designer. Today this is…
William I. Myers on "The Food Situation" in 1943, perspective of Friends of the Land in wartime
By the summer of 1943 in Chicago and in Lake Forest wartime food rationing was well established, with the first ration cards for sugar having been given out in schools in May, 1942. The strict limits on foods from standard channels quickly led to…