File:Century Building, State Street and Adams Street, Chicago, IL (52901593775).jpg

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Description Built in 1915, this Chicago School-style skyscraper was designed by Holabird and Roche, and is known as the Century Building, and housed commercial office space during the 20th Century. The building stands 16 stories and 185 feet (56 meters) tall, with terra cotta facades along State Street and Adams Street featuring fluted pilasters at the corners and between groups of four window bays, simpler pilaster “ribs” between individual windows, one-over-one windows, Chicago-style windows on the third floor, decorative reliefs on the spandrel panels, with sculptures on the spandrels between the second and third floors, decorative sculptures and fins on the parapet enclosing the building’s low-slope roof, and a modified first floor and second floor facade, which features more modern cladding and storefronts, a mural on the second-story cladding, as well as a sidewalk shed. The building is a contributing structure in the Loop Retail Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. The building, along with the entire block, has been vacant since it was seized via eminent domain by the General Services Administration, a branch of the United States federal government, in 2005, recently being threatened with demolition due to alleged but poorly established and inadequately proven supposed “security risks” that seem to be more related to personal and political shenanigans by public officials in a nearby federal building than to any actual threat. Illustrating as to why this bizarre reasoning makes no sense, several federal office buildings exist elsewhere in the United States within similar proximity to other towers or in low-rise buildings adjacent to much taller privately owned structures, and these apparently do not have such issues.
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Author Warren LeMay from Covington, KY, United States
Camera location41° 52′ 46.36″ N, 87° 37′ 39.5″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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