1869 – Water Tower, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Architect: W.W. Boyington
The old Water Tower and Chicago Avenue Pumping Station are the only public buildings to survive in this area on Michigan Avenue destroyed by the Fire of 1871.
1898 – Montgomery Ward Building, Six North Michigan Ave., Chicago, USA
Architect: Schmidt, Garden, and Martin
Constructed as the headquarters of the Montgomery Ward company;
1923 – London Guarantee Building, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Architect: Alfred S. Alschuler
The London Guarantee Building, also known as 360 North Michigan Avenue,
1924 – Wrigley Building, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Architect: Graham, Anderson, Probst and White
William Wrigley, Jr.,
1925 – Chicago Tribune Tower, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Architect: Howells & Hood
The Tribune Company’s 1922 competition to design the “world’s most beautiful office building”
1929 – Hotel Intercontinental, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Architect: Walter W. Ahlschlager
Was originally built in 1929 as the Medinah Athletic Club,
1929 – Palmolive Building, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Architect: Holabird & Root
Built for one of the world’s leading soap manufacturers,
1969 – John Hancock Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
Today, the John Hancock Center in Chicago,
1983 – One Magnificent Mile, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
Located at the inside corner of the Gold Coast streetwall where Lake Shore Drive turns east and the “Magnificent Mile”
1984 – Crain Communications Building, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Architect: A. Epstein and Sons International, Inc.
Located at the northwest corner of Grant Park,
