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People’s Gas Building II
Life Span: 1911-Present
Location: 122 S. Michigan
Architect: Burnham & Root
PEOPLE’S GAS CO. building II, at 122 S. Michigan avenue, on the northwest corner of E. Adams street, was completed in 1911. D. H. Burnham & Co. were the architects and Joachim G. Giaver the engineer. The building is 20 stories high, with two basements, on hardpan caissons. The exterior walls on the two street fronts, above the ornamental monolithic granite columns, are supported on steel cantilever girders.
PEOPLE’S GAS CO. building I was a six-story building with one basement, built in 1883 as the Brunswick Hotel, and wrecked in 1910 to make way for the present building.
People’Gas Company Building
1910
View from NE from North Garden of The Art Institute of Chicago
J. W. Taylor
1911-1916
People’s Gas Company II
Under Construction
April 15, 1911
People’s Gas Company II
Lobby
People’s Gas Company II
Customer Room
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