Navy Pier
Burnham, Daniel Hudson
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Alternative Title
Navy Pier Chicago
Date
1916Description
View into the center section, looking north; Navy Pier is a 3,300-foot (1,010 m) long pier on the Chicago shoreline of Lake Michigan. The pier was built in 1916 at a cost of $4.5 million; it was a part of the Plan of Chicago developed by architect and city planner Daniel Burnham and his associates. As Municipal Pier #2 (Municipal Pier #1 was never built), Navy Pier was planned and built to serve as a mixed-purpose piece of public infrastructure. The pier proved to be much more successful as a public gathering place. As rebuilt in the 1990s, the pier's current layout includes fast-food kiosks, shops, a ballroom, a concert stage, and convention exhibition halls. Navy Pier (along with the McCormick Place complex) is now owned and managed by the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority (MPEA). MPEA is a municipal authority created by the Illinois General Assembly. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 7/17/2008)
Type of Work
mixed-use development; dock; park (recreation area)Subject
architectural exteriors, business, commerce and trade, contemporary (1960 to present), Boats and boating, parks (recreation areas), Transportation, leisure, commercial, Lake Michigan, waterfront, Twentieth century
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