Description
Excerpt from The Union Station District Fire, Chicago, Illinois: March 15, 1922
This building is a skeleton steel frame structure, sixteen stories high, with two basements, covering an area of approximately square feet. Walls are brick curtains; faced and trimmed with glazed white terra-cotta. Floors for most part are 1 wood surface on a cinder concrete grouting car ried on ?at hollow tile arches; approximately every third ?oor is 3' 8 thick with the cinder grouting carried on tile laid on edge supported On ?at hollow tile arches. Roof is tar and gravel. On ?at tile arches. All structural steel members tile protected, except columns are concrete covered with outside facing of hollow tile. Stairs and elevators enclosed in tile and brick shafts, wiredglass paneled metal doors to ?oors except Meeker type on, freight elevator; partitions mainly of 3 and 4 hollow tile. An exterior brick court with wired glass metal frame _windows south, extends from second ?oor up. Plain glass windows in wooden frames in exterior walls face streets north and east. Wired glass windows in metal frames face Elevated Rail way structure on the south and lower brick buildings across alley at the west.
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This building is a skeleton steel frame structure, sixteen stories high, with two basements, covering an area of approximately square feet. Walls are brick curtains; faced and trimmed with glazed white terra-cotta. Floors for most part are 1 wood surface on a cinder concrete grouting car ried on ?at hollow tile arches; approximately every third ?oor is 3' 8 thick with the cinder grouting carried on tile laid on edge supported On ?at hollow tile arches. Roof is tar and gravel. On ?at tile arches. All structural steel members tile protected, except columns are concrete covered with outside facing of hollow tile. Stairs and elevators enclosed in tile and brick shafts, wiredglass paneled metal doors to ?oors except Meeker type on, freight elevator; partitions mainly of 3 and 4 hollow tile. An exterior brick court with wired glass metal frame _windows south, extends from second ?oor up. Plain glass windows in wooden frames in exterior walls face streets north and east. Wired glass windows in metal frames face Elevated Rail way structure on the south and lower brick buildings across alley at the west.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Author(s) - Unknown Author
Hardback
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ISBN - 9780260133311
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.4 cm
Page Count - 19
Paperback
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ISBN - 9781332080571
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.1 cm
Page Count - 19
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