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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Chicago, Illinois, United Statesen_US
dc.coverage.temporal1890-1895 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorBurnham, Daniel Hudsonen_US
dc.date1890-1895en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-04-26T19:22:34Z
dc.date.available2013-04-26T19:22:34Z
dc.date.issued1890-1895en_US
dc.identifier211192en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 19en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/118661
dc.descriptionThe main entrance on the east elevation (State Street); "The four initial floors of the fourteen-storey Reliance Building, designed by Charles B. Atwood of Daniel Burnham's office and the structural engineer E.C. Shankland, were erected in 1890. This being the first comprehensive achievement of the system now known as Chicago construction, was repeated innumerable times in Chicago in the building boom that lasted from 1890 to 1893. It consisted of a riveted steel-frame superstructure, hollow-tile flooring on steel joists, plaster fire-proofing, perimeter bay windows filled with plate glass, steel-trussed wind bracing and bedrock concrete caissons sometimes extending for as much as 125 feet beneath the footing." p. 63 Source: Frampton, Kenneth; Modern architecture, 1851-1945, New York: Rizzoli, 1983 (0847805069) (accessed 12/6/2007)en_US
dc.format.mediumterra cotta; marble; wrought ironen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectural exteriorsen_US
dc.subjectbusiness, commerce and tradeen_US
dc.subjectModernisten_US
dc.subjectChicago Schoolen_US
dc.titleReliance Buildingen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A1-BC-RB-B2en_US
vra.culturalContextAmericanen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling)en_US
vra.worktypeskyscraperen_US
vra.worktypeoffice buildingen_US
dc.contributor.displayDaniel Hudson Burnham (American architect, 1846-1912)en_US


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