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    The Monadnock Building (historically the Monadnock Block; pronounced /məˈnædnɒk/ mə-NAD-nok) is a 16-story skyscraper located at 53 West Jackson Boulevard...
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  • The Monadnock Building is an historic 10-story, 204,625 square foot office building in downtown San Francisco, California located at 685 Market St. The...
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  • Insurance Building, 10 floors, built in 1890 Manhattan Building in Chicago, 68.3 m (224 ft) tall, 16 floors, built in 1891 Monadnock Building, 66 m (217 ft)...
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    Investment Building (1912), Kohler and Chase Building (1909), Physicians Building (1914), Humboldt Bank Building (1906) and the Monadnock Building (1906)...
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    Palace Hotel, San Francisco (category Hotel buildings completed in 1909)
    century-old nine-story main building stands immediately adjacent to both the BART Montgomery Street Station and the Monadnock Building, and across Market Street...
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    Illinois. It was also known as the Smurfit–Stone Building and the Stone Container Building. While the building was originally going to be called "One Park...
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  • Architecture The Monadnock Building, a proto-skyscraper located in the city of Chicago, Illinois The Monadnock Building (San Francisco) Business Monadnock Lifetime...
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    Louis Sullivan (category Louis Sullivan buildings)
    Chicago's Monadnock Building (not designed by Sullivan) straddles this remarkable moment of transition: the northern half of the building, finished in...
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    Architecture of Chicago (category Buildings and structures in Chicago)
    1930) 1888 Rookery Building, Daniel Burnham and John Wellborn Root, 1905 lobby redesign by Frank Lloyd Wright 1889 Monadnock Building, Daniel Burnham and...
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    building technologies and structural systems, such as the tube-frame structure. While the term "Chicago School" is widely used to describe buildings constructed...
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    Bank Building Field Building Fine Arts Building Grant Park Jewelers Row District Mather Tower Historic Michigan Boulevard District Monadnock Building The...
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    Early skyscrapers (category Commercial buildings in the United States)
    self-supporting, steel-framed skyscraper. Some buildings, such as The Rookery and the Monadnock Building, combined elements of both the newer and older...
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    of buildings. The skyscrapers listed are the Auditorium Building (pictured), Second Leiter Building, Marquette Building, Rookery Building, Monadnock Building...
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    practical limit in 1891 with Chicago's Monadnock Building. What is the chief characteristic of the tall office building? It is lofty. It must be tall. The...
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    Printing House Row District (category Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Chicago)
    1976. The district includes the Monadnock Building, the Manhattan Building, the Fisher Building, and the Old Colony Building. The district overlaps with the...
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    Pontiac Building, 1891 Monadnock Building (southern half), 1893 McConnell Apartments, 1210 North Astor (Chicago), 1897 Gage Group Buildings, 1899 57...
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    John Wellborn Root (category Burnham and Root buildings)
    Scarritt House (1888), NRHP Monadnock Building (1889), Chicago, National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) Society for Savings Building, Cleveland, (1889), NRHP...
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    Brick (category Building materials)
    skyscraper construction severely limited the size of the building – the Monadnock Building, built in 1896 in Chicago, required exceptionally thick walls...
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  • steel-framed building to use a purely skeletal supporting structure. Second Leiter Building – Chicago, designed by William Le Baron Jenney. Monadnock Building –...
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  • That building was used for both dorms and classrooms, enabling the college to move completely to its current location. In the fall of 1965, Monadnock Hall...
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    masonry load bearing-wall structure in the world, exceeded only by the Monadnock Building in Chicago, completed that same year. It is fourteen stories faced...
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    and in 1891 the Monadnock Building in Chicago reached 60 metres (200 ft) over 16 floors, the tallest load bearing brick office building ever built. Architecture...
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    Building (1890, Burnham & Root), the Pontiac Building (1891, Holabird & Roche) and the Monadnock Building (1891, Burnham & Root; 1893, Holabird & Roche)...
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  • reaching a technical limit at about 20 stories (culminating in the 1891 Monadnock Building by Burnham & Root in Chicago). Professional engineer William LeBaron...
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  • America's Favorite Architecture (category Lists of buildings and structures in the United States)
    – Minneapolis Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth – Fort Worth, Texas Monadnock Building – Chicago Morgan Library & Museum – New York City Mount Angel Library...
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    Daniel Burnham (category Burnham and Root buildings)
    Station (1881) Montauk Building (1882–1883) Kent House (1883) Rookery Building (1886) Reliance Building (1890–1895) Monadnock Building (northern half, 1891)...
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  • architectural works, monumental sculptures, or inscriptions), groups of buildings, and sites (including archaeological sites). Natural features (consisting...
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    Monadnock Building; Louis Sullivan's tall-building canon; and Eliel Saarinen's second-prize entry in the Tribune Tower design contest. The building was...
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  • John Wellborn Root, American architect, designed the Rookery Building and Monadnock Building (d. 1891) 1854 – Ramón Corral, Mexican general and politician...
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    Center, the Monadnock Building, the Reliance Building, the Sullivan Center, the Marquette Building, the Chicago Building, the Wrigley Building, Tribune Tower...
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