Bachman House Chess Records Office and Studio Crown Hall Fisher Studio Houses Heald Square Monument Turzak House Daley Center Inland Steel Building 860-880 Lake Shore Drive Site of the First Self-Sustaining Controlled Nuclear Chain Reaction First Church of Deliverance Keck-Gottschalk-Keck Apartments
The Modern Era Tour
Much of the general attention on Chicago architecture focuses on the skyscrapers of the late-19th and early-20th centuries or on the Prairie-style residential designs of such architects as Walter Burley Griffin, George Maher, or Frank Lloyd Wright. Often overlooked are the landmark buildings from Chicago's so-called Modern Era, beginning about 1935 when construction resumed during the Great Depression.

This tour features a variety of more contemporary architecture by such prominent designers Bruce Goff, Keck & Keck, Andre Rebori, and the master modernist, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. it also includes several significant sites and structures, such as a recording studio for early blues and rock n' roll music and the test site for the first, self-sustaining controlled nuclear reaction.

  1. Chess Records Office and Studio
  2. Fisher Studio Houses
  3. Heald Square Monument
  4. Keck-Gottschalk-Keck Apartments
  5. Turzak House
  6. First Church of Deliverance
  7. Site of the First Self-Sustaining Controlled Nuclear Chain Reaction
  8. Bachman House
  9. 860-880 Lake Shore Drive
  10. Crown Hall
  11. Inland Steel Building
  12. Daley Center

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