Congress Plaza Hotel, Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Congress Plaza Hotel, Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL / w_lemay
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| 説明 | Built in 1893, this Renaissance Revival-style building was designed by Clinton J. Warren and expanded by Holabird and Roche in 1902 and 1907 to its present size. The initial Congress Plaza Hotel building is the northern structure at the southwest corner of Michigan Avenue and Ida B. Wells Drive, which was known as the Auditorium Annex Hotel, and was built to accommodate visitors in Chicago for the 1893 Columbian Exposition World’s Fair, complimenting the massive Auditorium Building across the street. The 11-story building was expanded to the south with a 3-story wing and an additional 13-story wing in 1902, which was further extended to the south in 1907, and has since received multiple additions to the west that house additional guest rooms. The original building’s exterior is clad in limestone with rusticated stone at the base that has been covered with granite cladding, five-story oriel windows below arched window bays on the original section of the building, with four four-story oriel windows above a portico with doric pilasters on the Michigan Avenue facade, window bays with recessed spandrel panels and arched windows on the ninth floor, with engaged columns between pairs of windows, pilasters between pairs of windows on the tenth floor, a cornice around the eleventh floor with small windows, and a parapet enclosing a low-slope roof, with a large sign displaying the words “Congress Hotel” on the rooftop. The south wings are simpler with the three-story wing featuring two-story oriel windows on the Michigan Avenue facade with recessed panels at the parapet above with decorative corbels, and the 13-story wing featuring ten-story oriel windows on the exterior of the building, one-over-one windows on the top two floors with a cornice featuring corbels above, and buff brick cladding on the side and rear facades. The building originally featured an underground passageway beneath Ida B. Wells Drive to the basement of the Auditorium Building, known as Peacock Alley, which has since been closed and sealed off. The interior features many intact historic spaces, including ballrooms, lobbies, and elevator lobbies, with paneled walls, coffered ceilings, arched bays, sculptures, balconies with metal railings, marble floors, wooden paneling, vaulted ceilings, murals, tile mosaics, brass elevator doors, and brass letterboxes. The hotel has hosted many famous visitors, and was the main hotel hosting visitors for various political conventions during its history. The building is a contributing structure in the Historic Michigan Boulevard District, listed as a Chicago Landmark in 2002, and today, remains in use as a hotel, with 871 rooms and suites, and large ballrooms and convention spaces. |
| 撮影日 | 2023-11-04 13:13:31 |
| 撮影者 | w_lemay , Chicago, IL, United States |
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| 撮影地 | Chicago, Illinois, United States 地図 |