page_title: Architecture of Chicago
section_title: Timeline of notable buildings
hierarchical_section_title: Architecture of Chicago / Timeline of notable buildings
context_page_description: The buildings and architecture of Chicago have influenced and reflected the history of American architecture. The built environment of Chicago is reflective of the city's history and multicultural heritage, featuring prominent buildings in a variety of styles by many important architects. Since most structures within the downtown area were destroyed by the Great Chicago Fire in 1871 Chicago buildings are noted for their originality rather than their antiquity.
  Chicago is world-famous for its plethora of unique architectural styles, from Chicago Bungalows and Two-Flats to the grand Graystones along Logan Boulevard and Lawndale Avenue, from the skyscrapers of the Loop as well as a wealth of sacred architecture such as the city's ornate "Polish Cathedrals".
context_section_description: Before 1900:
  1836 Henry B. Clarke House
  1869 Chicago Water Tower, William W. Boyington
  1872 Second Presbyterian Church 1936 S. Michigan, James Renwick 1900 Howard Van Doren Shaw
  1877 St. Stanislaus Kostka Church 1327 N. Noble, Patrick Keely
  1882–1883 Montauk Building, Daniel Burnham and John Wellborn Root.  First building to be called a "skyscraper." (Demolished, 1902)
  1885 Home Insurance Building, Chicago School, William Le Baron Jenney (Demolished, 1931)
  1885 Palmer Mansion, early Romanesque and Norman Gothic, Henry Ives Cobb and Charles Sumner Frost (Demolished, 1950)
  1886 John J. Glessner House, Henry Hobson Richardson
  1887 Marshall Field Warehouse, Henry Hobson Richardson (Demolished, 1930)
  1888 Rookery Building, Daniel Burnham and John Wellborn Root, 1905 lobby redesign by Frank Lloyd Wright
  1889 Monadnock Building, Daniel Burnham and John Wellborn Root
  1889 Auditorium Building, Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler.
  1889 St. Mary of Perpetual Help Church, Henry Englebert
  1890 and 1894–1895 Reliance Building, Charles B. Atwood of Burnham & Root
  1890–1899 Gage Group Buildings, Holabird & Roche with Louis Sullivan
  1891 Manhattan Building, William Le Baron Jenney
  1892 Masonic Temple, Daniel Burnham and John Wellborn Root (Demolished, 1939)
  1892–1893 World's Columbian Exposition, Daniel Burnham, director of Works
  1893 Palace of Fine Arts, later Museum of Science and Industry, Beaux-Arts, Charles B. Atwood
  1893-1898 St. John Cantius Church, Alphonsus Druiding
  1894 Tree Studio Building and Annexes, Judge Lambert & Anne Tree via Parfitt Brothers; 1912 annex: Hill and Woltersdorf
  1895–1896 Fisher Building (Chicago), D.H. Burnham & Company, Charles B. Atwood
  1897 St. Paul Church 2234 S. Hoyne, Henry Schlacks
  1897 Chicago Library (now Chicago Cultural Center), Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge
  1899 Sullivan Center, Louis Sullivan; 1905–1906, twelve-story south addition, D.H. Burnham & Company
  1900-1939:
  1902 Marshall Field and Company Building, north State Street building D.H. Burnham & Company, Charles B. Atwood
  1903 Holy Trinity Cathedral, Chicago
  1905-1906 Holy Trinity Polish Mission, Herman Olszewski and William G. Krieg,
  1905 Chicago Federal Building
  1906 Sears Merchandise Building Tower, George G. Nimmons - William K. Fellows
  1907 Marshall Field and Company Building, south State Street building D.H. Burnham & Company, Charles B. Atwood
  1909 Robie House, Prairie School, Frank Lloyd Wright
  1912-1914 St. Adalbert's Church 1650 W.17th street, Henry Schlacks
  1912 Medinah Temple North Wabash Avenue
  1912 Pulaski Park fieldhouse by Jens Jensen
  1914 Navy Pier
  1914-1920 St. Mary of the Angels Church 1850 N. Hermitage Ave, Worthmann and Steinbach
  1915 Holy Cross Church, Joseph Molitor
  1916 Navy Pier Auditorium, Charles Sumner Frost
  1917–1920 Michigan Avenue Bridge, Edward H. Bennett
  1917-1921 Basilica of St. Hyacinth 3636 West Wolfram Avenue, Worthmann & Steinbach
  1919-1924 Wrigley Building, Graham, Anderson, Probst & White
  1921 Chicago Theatre, Beaux-Arts, Cornelius W. Rapp and George L. Rapp
  1921 Old Chicago Main Post Office, Graham, Anderson, Probst & White
  1922 Tribune Tower, neo-Gothic, John Mead Howells and Raymond M. Hood
  1924 Soldier Field, Holabird & Roche; extensive renovation 2003, Ben Wood and Carlos Zapata
  1925 Uptown Theatre, Cornelius W. Rapp and George L. Rapp
  1927 Pittsfield Building, Graham, Anderson, Probst and White
  1929 Carbide & Carbon Building, Daniel and Hubert Burnham, sons of Daniel Burnham
  1929 Palmolive Building, Art Deco, Holabird & Root
  1929 John G. Shedd Aquarium, Graham, Anderson, Probst & White
  1930 Chicago Board of Trade Building, Holabird & Root
  1930 All Saints Cathedral, J. G. Steinbach
  1930 Gateway Theatre Mason Rapp of Rapp & Rapp; extensive renovation 1979-1984, "Solidarity Tower" addition in 1985
  1930 Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum, Ernest A. Grunsfeld, Jr.
  1931 Merchandise Mart, Graham, Anderson, Probst & White
  1930s-1960s Illinois Institute of Technology, including S.R. Crown Hall, Second Chicago School, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
  1934 Field Building, Graham, Ander
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