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The Rookery


Title	The Rookery
Description	Caption: "When the great fire of 1871 destroyed the City Hall at the corner of La Salle and Adams streets a temporary building erected on the site was jokingly called " The Rookery." The twelve story building erected later upon this spot retained the name of ""The Rookery." It is built of gray granite and fire proof brick." Designed by Burnham and Root. The base is of red granite and the facades and ornament are of pressed brick and terra-cotta.
Date	1906
Type	Photographs
Identifier	chicago00lhne_raw_0018b.jp2
Source	http://www.archive.org/stream/chicago00lhne#page/16/mode/2up
Physical Location	University of Illinois at Chicago
Format	image/jp2
Subject Name	Rookery Building (Chicago, Ill.) Burnham and Root
Subject	Office buildings
Coverage-Spatial	The Loop (Chicago, Ill.)
Date of Content	1900-1909
Publisher	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; University of Illinois at Chicago
Rights	Images in this collection were digitized through the University of Illinois Library's participation in the Open Content Alliance and may be used freely. Attribution to the University of Illinois is appreciated. High-resolution images can be downloaded from the Internet Archive at www.archive.org. For further information, contact dcc@library.uiuc.edu.
Sub-Collection	Buildings
Collection	Picture Chicago
Book Title	Chicago
Author of the Book	L. H. Nelson Company
Link to the Full-Text	http://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:chicago00lhne

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