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Courtesy of our indefatigable correspondent Bob Johnson, we give you the above look at the work being done on the gabled roof of
Holabird & Roche's 1912 Monroe Building, part of the historic Michigan Avenue landmarked streetwall. It's one of a pair buildings, the other being Holabird & Roche's University Club just to the north, that straddle Monroe Street to form a visual gateway to the Loop. The roof work is part of major
renovations to the
Monroe, which was originally intended to be a residential conversion, but now appears to be sticking with offices.
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According to Tim Samuelson's
excellent history on the Monroe Building's website, the offices in the top floor loft just under the peak of the gable roof have been home to a range of luminaries, from Walter Burley Griffin, to Barry Byrne, Alfonso and Margaret Ianelli, and, for a brief period, Frank Lloyd Wright himself.
1 comment:
I love posts like this that fill in the histories of these elegant buildings. My first job in architecture was in this building in 1976 with SGE. I returned here 30 years later with MGDF. the tentative list of architects in the lofts above was everchanging over the years. Its good to have a definitive list.
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