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English: Built in 1927, this Art Deco and Gothic Revival-style skyscraper was designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst and White, and was the tallest building in Chicago upon its completion, being surpassed by the Chicago Board of Trade Building in 1929, but remaining among the city’s tallest buildings well into the postwar era. The building stands 38 stories and 551 feet (168 meters) tall, and was built by the family of Marshall Field, being named for Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where Field worked early in his career. The building was built to house medical and dental professionals, and was donated to the Field Museum of Natural History by the Field family in 1944, before being sold by the museum in 1960. The building is clad in terra cotta with a lower portion 21 stories tall that wraps around a central light court, with a tower on the north side of the building that rises an additional 17 stories and is topped with a hipped copper roof. The building features polished black stone cladding at the base with brass doorways and trim, decorative pilasters flanking the one-over-one double-hung windows on the second through fifth floors, with juliet balconies between the fifth and sixth floor windows, which feature intricate Gothic Revival details. Above the sixth floor, the exterior facade is simpler, with ribbed spandrel panels, and additional juliet balconies at the top and bottom of the decorative surrounds of the eighteenth through twenty first floor windows, and a parapet with gabled sections surrounding the low-slope roof of the lower portion of the building. The tower features setbacks at the corners and around the top, decorative ribbed spandrel panels, decorative trim surrounds at the 32nd floor and 35th floor windows, with the 36th through 38th floors being smaller than those below them, terminating at the building’s hipped roof, which features gables on the sides, and a chimney at the top. The building was designated a Chicago Landmark in 2002. The building presently houses apartments, extended stay hotel, several retail outlets, and a cafe. |
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| Author | w_lemay |
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