Reliance Building

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Reliance Building
(U.S. National Historic Landmark)
Reliance Building at 20 North State Street.
Reliance Building at 20 North State Street.
Location: Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
Coordinates: 41°52′58″N, 87°37′40″W
Built/Founded: 1890 - 1895[1]
Architect: John Root, Charles A. Atwood[1]
Architectural style(s): Chicago School
Added to NRHP: October 15, 1970[2]
Reference #: 70000237

The Reliance Building is the first skyscraper to have large plate glass windows make up the majority of its surface area; foreshadowing a feature of skyscrapers that would become dominant in the 20th century. It is located at 20 North State Street, Chicago, Illinois, and as of 2006 houses the Hotel Burnham. The Reliance building joined the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 and on January 7, 1976 it was designated a National Historic Landmark.[1]

Upper facade
Upper facade

The building was designed by Charles A. Atwood of Daniel H. Burnham's architectural firm, with E.C. Shankland as engineer. Its first four floors were erected in 1890. The addition of ten more floors in 1894–1895 completed the building and marked the "first comprehensive achievement"[3] of the Chicago construction method. The building's plate glass windows are set within a tiled facade. Its steel-frame superstructure is built atop concrete caissons sunk as much as 125 feet beneath the footing.

  1. ^ a b c Reliance Building, NHL Database, National Historic Landmarks Program. Retrieved 10 February 2007.
  2. ^ NRIS Database, National Register of Historic Places. Retrieved 9 February 2007.
  3. ^ Kenneth Frampton and Yukio Futagawa Modern Architecture 1851-1945 p. 63
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