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Saturday, November 28, 2009
Friday, August 21, 2009
UNION STATION
This image depicts one of Henry Hering's sculptures at Union Station. "Allegorical Night", along with her sister "Day" have welcomed train travellers arriving in Chicago for nearly a hundred years.
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Monday, June 15, 2009
Thursday, June 11, 2009
UNION STATION
This sunlit photograph shows the classic west facade of Chicago's Union Station. Completed in 1925 by architects Graham Anderson Probst and White, it is a marked contribution to Daniel Burnham's 1909 Plan for Chicago.
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Sunday, May 17, 2009
CHRIST OF THE LOOP
This brooding Christ sculpted by Arvid Strauss in 1953 looks down on Madison Street from Saint Peter's Church in Chicago. The Church was designed in 1953 by Chicago Architects Vitzthum and Burns.
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Thursday, May 14, 2009
FOUNTAIN OF THE GREAT LAKES
Ontario extends her hand to the Sea. This striking woman is a detail from Lorado Taft's sculpture "Fountain of the Great Lakes." Made possible by the Benjamin Franklin Ferguson Fund, it stands today in the South Garden of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009
MARSHALL FIELD CLOCK
Peirce Anderson, educated at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, designed the clock at Marshall Field and Company that has become a Chicago Landmark.
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Labels:
Daniel Burnham,
Marshall Field,
Peirce Anderson
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