This is one of my favorite buildings in the city.
This place?
One of the first residential highrise buildings ever built.
No shit. I've walked past here a thousand times.
Built as luxury apartments for the Chicago Exhibition in the '30s.
I know a guy who got his face shot off in here.
Arched windows. It's Romanesque revival. Look at the ornamental cornice.
I would look at it if I knew what a cornice was.
Up the top, there. Come here. See all that extraordinary masonry work and detail? It's remarkable.
You mean the little ribbon things?
It's polychromatic brick façade on top of beautiful stone.
Looks kinda like a castle.
Yeah.
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This is the Frank Lloyd Wright thing?
Built for the Robie family. And the planters are supposed to break the inside out so it divides.
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And we're under a bridge. And now everyday places...
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