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Originally Posted by Lwize
Can anyone put up side-by-side aerial images of the 1913 Hall of Records - before and after street realignment?
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Whip or no whip
, here you go
, Lwize.
"The Hall of Records acquired its most distinctive quirk in the 1920s. As the image below shows, the building originally stood flush against New High Street. But when the city untangled the maze of streets that once navigated the Civic Center area, it left the Hall of Records standing at an off-angle relative to the new, straightened grid."
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BEFORE
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"That odd stance became a liability in the 1960s, as a new Civic Center composed of modern, monumental buildings and arranged around a long, landscaped Civic Center Mall took form. The county considered saving the building by rotating it to align with the new street grid, but the estimated cost of $5 million was considered excessive. Instead, the wrecking ball came. In 1973, the idiosyncratic Hall of Records gave way to a blacktop parking lot—recently converted into the easternmost section of Grand Park."
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AFTER
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*Text courtesy of our friend
, Nathan Masters at
Lamag
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