Lake Shore and Esplanade Apartments (Chicago, Il) : General view of the mailroom

Creator:

Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969
Pace Associates, American architectural firm, active 1946-1957

Published/Created:

860-880 Lake Shore Drive; 900-910 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois, United States
1948-1951

Physical Description:

254 ft (height)

Date Depicted:

10/1/1995
1900 AD - 1949 AD

Materials:

concrete
glass
steel

Notes:

A twin pair of glass-and-steel apartment towers on N. Lake Shore Drive along Lake Michigan in the Streeterville neighborhood of Chicago. They were added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 28, 1980. The 26 floor, 254 ft (82 m) tall towers were dubbed the "Glass House" apartments. Construction was by the renowned Chicago real estate developer Herbert Greenwald. The design principles first expressed in 860-880 Lake Shore Drive were copied extensively, and are now considered characteristic of the modern International Style. They were finished in 1951 and were featured in a 1957 article in Life Magazine on Mies. In 1956 the complex was extended with another pair of towers at 900-910 Lake Shore Drive called Esplanade Apartments, also designed by Mies. In 1996 they became the first buildings designed by Mies van der Rohe to receive Chicago Landmark Status.

Variant Titles:

860-880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments [complex]

Topics:

Architecture -- United States -- 20th century -- (YVRC)

Period/Style:

International Style
Modern
Modernist

Culture:

American

Accession Number:

1A1-MVR-LS-D2

Genre:

apartment houses (AAT)
architecture (AAT)

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Sculptures, Models, & Architecture

Rights:

Copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc
The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.

Access Restrictions:

Yale Community Only

Digital:

construction buildings; dwellings; multiple dwellings; apartment houses; buildings; multistory buildings; high-rise buildings; skyscrapers interior

Source Creator:

Gilchrist, Scott

Source Title:

Archivision Base Collection

Source Created:

2878 Chamonix, Montreal QC
Archivision, Inc.
10/1/1995

Source Note:

Purchase, Visual Resources Collection, May, 2011; photographer Scott Gilchrist

Yale Collection:

Visual Resources Collection

Digital Collection:

Visual Resources Collection

Local Record Number:

4152

OID:

10090933

PID:

digcoll:1865092