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Originally Posted by Latoso
Check out the book Lost Chicago. It will bring you to tears.
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yeah, chicago has ripped itself apart and rebuilt itself so many times; the architectural losses here are staggering, to say the least.
as there are way too many to list, i'll just give one example of what we have lost:
Chicago Masonic Temple
- designed by Burnham & Root
- completed in 1892
- 21 floors/302ft. - the first building in chicago to surpass 300 ft.
- demolished in 1939 because it was considered "old-fashioned"
- it was replaced with a terribly non-descript two story building that housed a Walgreens for many years
- the site is now being served proper justice with the construction of MoMo, a very nice modern high-rise condo.
and MoMo, the building that is finally being built on site after nearly 7 decades of wasted opportunity since the masonic temple was ripped down in 1939.
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