File:Chicago (ILL) Historic Michigan Boulevard District " Santa Fe building " 1903 & " Metropolitan Tower " 1924 (4825792307).jpg
Original file (2,912 × 4,368 pixels, file size: 15.05 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Captions
Summary
[edit]DescriptionChicago (ILL) Historic Michigan Boulevard District " Santa Fe building " 1903 & " Metropolitan Tower " 1924 (4825792307).jpg |
Left to right : The Metropolitan Tower : 1924 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Tower_(Chicago)" rel="nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Tower_%28Chicago%29</a> owned by Metropolitan Properties of Chicago, is a skyscraper located at 310 S. Michigan Avenue in Chicago's East Chicago Landmark Historic Michigan Boulevard District in the Loop community area in Cook County, and is now being renovated as a condominium complex with 242 units. Residences range in size from 1,200 square feet (110 m2) to 4,000 square feet (370 m2). Penthouses feature 360 degree city views and private elevators.[3] Prices run from $300,000 for a 762 square feet (70.8 m2) one-bedroom unit to $1.365 million for a 1,932 square feet (179.5 m2) three-bedroom.[4] The Metropolitan Tower is also home for a branch of Chase Bank. Designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst & White, the Metropolitan Tower was named the Straus Building when completed in 1924. Though it was the first building in Chicago with 30 or more floors, it was never officially designated Chicago's tallest building since the Chicago Temple Building, also completed in 1924, is taller by 92 feet (28 m) but has seven fewer floors.The Straus Building and the Chicago Temple Building were the first to take advantage of the 1923 zoning ordinance; before then, no building in Chicago could be taller than 260 feet (79 m). The Metropolitan Tower was at one time called the Continental National Insurance Company Building (later Continental Center and from 1980 to 2004 it was called the Britannica Building when that company was its tenant. SANTA FE Building ( Railway Exchange Buiolding ) 1903 The Santa Fe Building, also known as Railway Exchange Building, is a 17-story office building in the Historic Michigan Boulevard District of the Loop community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. It was designed by Frederick P. Dinkelberg of D. H. Burnham & Company in the Chicago style. Dinkelberg was also the designer of the Flatiron Building in New York City. The building is recognizable by the large "Santa Fe" logo on the roof, which is visible from Grant Park across Michigan Ave and from Lake Michigan. It is also notable for the round, porthole-like windows along the cornice. The center of the building features a lightwell, which was covered with a skylight in the 1980s. Architecture : The formal entrance to the building is located on Jackson Boulevard, which in 1904 was a more important street than Michigan Avenue. The impressive entrance is believed to have been required by Daniel Burnham, head of the architectural firm and the building's main stockholder. The firm moved its offices to the fourteenth floor, and Burnham's descendants continued ownership in the building until 1952. The building is organized as a classicization of John Wellborn Root's design of the Rookery. A street level two-story enclosed court designed in a symmetrical Beaux-Arts style was surmounted by an open lightwell which was surrounded by a ring of offices. By the formal arched entrance on Jackson Boulevard, a large staircase led to shops and a second-floor balcony. White-glazed terra-cotta sheaths the exterior façade and interior court and the lightwell is lined with white-glazed brick. Classical designs were used for the ornamental dentils, balusters, and column capitals. The building is completely steel-framed. The building is significant as a historic site because Daniel Burnham and his staff made the 1909 Plan of Chicago in a penthouse on the northeast corner of the roof.
|
Date | |
Source | Chicago (ILL) Historic Michigan Boulevard District : " Santa Fe building " 1903 & " Metropolitan Tower " 1924 |
Author | (vincent desjardins) from Paris, France |
Camera location | 41° 52′ 50.84″ N, 87° 37′ 21.29″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 41.880788; -87.622580 |
---|
Licensing
[edit]- You are free:
- to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
- to remix – to adapt the work
- Under the following conditions:
- attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
This image was originally posted to Flickr by (vincent desjardins) at https://flickr.com/photos/44613506@N07/4825792307 (archive). It was reviewed on 10 March 2019 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0. |
10 March 2019
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
current | 06:09, 10 March 2019 | 2,912 × 4,368 (15.05 MB) | SecretName101 (talk | contribs) | Transferred from Flickr via #flickr2commons |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
There are no pages that use this file.
Metadata
This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.
Camera manufacturer | Canon |
---|---|
Camera model | Canon EOS 5D |
Exposure time | 1/2,000 sec (0.0005) |
F-number | f/5.6 |
ISO speed rating | 1,600 |
Date and time of data generation | 20:44, 9 June 2010 |
Lens focal length | 73 mm |
Orientation | Rotated 90° CCW |
Horizontal resolution | 72 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 72 dpi |
File change date and time | 20:44, 9 June 2010 |
Exposure Program | Shutter priority |
Exif version | 2.21 |
Date and time of digitizing | 20:44, 9 June 2010 |
APEX shutter speed | 11 |
APEX aperture | 5 |
APEX exposure bias | 0 |
Metering mode | Pattern |
Flash | Flash did not fire, compulsory flash suppression |
Supported Flashpix version | 1 |
Color space | sRGB |
Focal plane X resolution | 3,086.9259259259 |
Focal plane Y resolution | 3,091.2954545455 |
Focal plane resolution unit | inches |
Custom image processing | Normal process |
Exposure mode | Auto exposure |
White balance | Auto white balance |
Scene capture type | Standard |