Ward Building
Chicago, United States
Exterior only
Visible from the street; the inside is private.
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Ward Building, a 85-meter tall skyscraper and university structure at Northwestern University in Chicago, was completed in 1926 by the architectural firms Childs & Smith and James Gamble Rogers. Executed in steel and rendered in the Collegiate Gothic style, the building exemplifies the early twentieth-century approach to campus architecture that combined modern structural methods with historical aesthetic references. The building is designated a Chicago Landmark.
Architect
Movement
- Built
- Type
- skyscraper, university building
- Materials
- steel
- Heritage
- Chicago Landmark
- Height
- 85 m
- Place
- Chicago, United States
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