711 Elgin Road

Evanston, United States

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

Located in Evanston, Illinois, this 1874 university building at Northwestern University exemplifies the Second Empire style and was designed by architect Gurdon P. Randall. The structure reflects the architectural preferences of the period through its characteristic formal design elements typical of the Second Empire movement, which was popular in American institutional architecture during the mid-to-late nineteenth century.