Pontiac Building, 542 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, Cook County, IL
Summary
Significance: One of the early structures erected by the firm of Holabird and Roche, this skyscraper shows an unusual development of the wall into two-bay-wide oriels supported on rich foliated terra cotta brackets.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-127
Survey number: HABS IL-1102
Building/structure dates: 1891 Initial Construction
Tags
Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Holabird, William
Roche, Martin
Purdy, Corydon T
George Fuller & Company
Location
chicago, 41.87477, -87.62948
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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