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HomrQT · #**181** Posted **Jul 31, 2017, 7:16 AM**

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Originally Posted by scalziand

Yeah, it really sholl haven been.

Damn, not bad....

HomrQT · #**182** Posted **Jul 31, 2017, 7:19 AM**

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Originally Posted by left of center

Wish they could have at least saved the old YMCA building. Shame it had to be torn down.

The amount of times that Chicago has shot itself in the foot by losing such wonderful architecture is infuriating.

Notyrview · #**183** Posted **Jul 31, 2017, 1:19 PM**

It's a damn shame. The Chicago Federal Building 😫

But the collective loss of all the brownstones and greystones, and even just brick 3 flats, is greater than any one great demolished building.

Khantilever · #**184** Posted **Jul 31, 2017, 1:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by Notyrview

It's a damn shame. The Chicago Federal Building 😫

At least with the loss of the Federal Building we got Mies' Federal Plaza which, arguably, did more for architecture and Chicago.

I'm not necessarily against losing some of these old buildings if we replace them with similarly impressive structures.

Mr Downtown · #**185** Posted **Jul 31, 2017, 2:28 PM**

Some confusion here. The building at 830 S. Michigan was the YWCA, not the YMCA, which had the huge building at 9th & Wabash (now Burnham Park Plaza).

Park Michigan proposed saving only the front 40 feet, a mere façadectomy.

KWILLSKYLINE · #**186** Posted **Jul 31, 2017, 3:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by HomrQT

Damn, not bad....

Millennium tower was a tragedy to lose especially with that awesome crown. Maybe it will go up elsewhere someday. I'm looking at you Hilton. Twin towers?

Ned.B · #**187** Posted **Jul 31, 2017, 6:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by HomrQT

The amount of times that Chicago has shot itself in the foot by losing such wonderful architecture is infuriating.

FYI, these buildings still exist. On the left is the Central YMCA, 19 S. Lasalle, on the right is the National Life Building, 29 S. Lasalle. Both were designed by Jenney & Mundie. Since this post card 19 had it's top floor replaced by 3 floors without the mansard roof and 29 had it's entire facade renovated by Holabird & Root in the 1940s.

Jim in Chicago · #**188** Posted **Jul 31, 2017, 7:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by Ned.B

FYI, these buildings still exist. On the left is the Central YMCA, 19 S. Lasalle, on the right is the National Life Building, 29 S. Lasalle. Both were designed by Jenney & Mundie. Since this post card 19 had it's top floor replaced by 3 floors without the mansard roof and 29 had it's entire facade renovated by Holabird & Root in the 1940s.

Sounds like 29 S. isn't long for this world:

http://www.gpchicago.com/architectur...redevelopment/

SteelMonkey · #**189** Posted **Jul 31, 2017, 8:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by Jim in Chicago

Sounds like 29 S. isn't long for this world:

http://www.gpchicago.com/architectur...redevelopment/

Wish that was the case but I believe 29 is being converted to apartments.

https://chicago.curbed.com/2017/1/17...uction-chicago

BrandonJXN · #**190** Posted **Aug 2, 2017, 5:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by thewaterman11

iirc, the stony island arts bank has most of its archives already... still, some of the interiors of ebony/jet maintain 1970s-era decor that few other places still have.

https://www.wbez.org/shows/wbez-blog...9-9aa99df0fb22

admittedly, the building's no looker from the exterior, but still...

This would make one hell of a boutique hotel conversion.