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Gothic Revival architecture. Sint-Petrus-en-Pauluskerk in Ostend (Belgium), built between 1899 and 1908. Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half of the 19th ...
Rockefeller Chapel is a Gothic Revival chapel on the campus of the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois.A monumental example of Collegiate Gothic architecture, it was meant by patron John D. Rockefeller to be the "central and dominant feature" of the campus; at 200.7 feet it is by covenant the tallest building on campus and seats 1700.
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- United States
- 200.7 feet (61.2 m)
American architects first introduced Gothic Revival style buildings to the United States in the mid-19th Century. Borrowed from a popular revival that first began in 18th Century Britain, the style spread through building pattern books. Medieval castles and cathedrals of 11th-13th Century Europe were reinterpreted as picturesque churches, homes ...
Numerous architects have constructed landmark buildings of varying styles in Chicago. Among them are the so-called "Chicago seven": James Ingo Freed, Tom Beeby, Larry Booth, Stuart Cohen, James Nagle, Stanley Tigerman, and Ben Weese . Daniel Burnham led the design of the "White City" of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition which some ...
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May 22, 2007. Randolph Tower, formerly known as the Steuben Club Building, is a historic Gothic Revival skyscraper in Downtown Chicago. The building was constructed in 1929 and designed by architect Karl M. Vitzthum, who designed another Chicago landmark, the historic One North LaSalle Building . Randolph Tower was built for the Steuben Club of ...
- 188 W. Randolph St
- Steuben Club Building
September 28, 1977. Second Presbyterian Church is a landmark Gothic Revival church located on South Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, United States. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, some of Chicago's most prominent families attended this church. It is renowned for its interior, completely redone in the Arts and Crafts ...
A dynamic presence on the skyline of North Michigan Avenue, just north of the Chicago River, the Gothic Revival Tribune Tower sits at one of the most architecturally significant intersections in Chicago, one of four dramatic skyscrapers in the immediate vicinity—the Wrigley Building (1924, Graham, Anderson, Probst and White), the London Guarantee Building (1923, Alfred Altschuler) and 333 ...
