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Near North Side and John Sexton Building from Holiday Inn Mart Plaza hotel

 

View north over the Near North Side from the Holiday Inn Mart Plaza hotel (350 W. Mart Center Drive). The John Sexton Building, located at Illinois and Orleans Streets, is in the foreground at the lower right. Industrial buildings including the Wallace Press Building and Kirchheimer Brothers Paper Company (417 West Ohio Street) are visible behind and to the left of the Sexton Building. The Montgomery Ward & Company Headquarters tower (now The Montgomery condominiums) stands out against the sky on the far left.

About this item


Title:
Near North Side and John Sexton Building from Holiday Inn Mart Plaza hotel
Date of Original:
1978; 1917 (John Sexton Building)
Identifier:
bru010_03_fF.tif
Permalink:
https://n2t.net/ark:/81984/d3b709
Type:
Image
Notes:
At the time of the photograph, the John Sexton building served as a warehouse and manufacturing facility, but has since been converted into condominiums.


Rights:
In copyright - non-commercial use permitted
Access:
Public access

Subject--Topic
Cities and towns
Architecture
Industrial districts
Industrial buildings
Warehouses

Photographer:
Brubaker, Charles William, 1926-2002
Contributor
Alschuler, Alfred S. (Alfred Samuel), 1876-1940
Schmidt, Garden and Martin
Yamasaki, Minoru, 1912-1986

Form:
Photographs
Medium:
color slides
Extent:
35 mm

Collection Information


Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
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Folder:
10
Repository:
University of Illinois at Chicago. Library. Special Collections and University Archives Department (Richard J. Daley Library)
Repository Collection Type:
Manuscript Collections
Repository Location:
Richard J. Daley Library

Geographic Information

Near North Side (Chicago, Ill.)
River North (Chicago, Ill.)