A pair of historic Loop skyscrapers facing demolition by the federal government once again top Preservation Chicago's annual list of most endangered buildings.
Empty Century and Consumers Buildings at 202-220 S. State in Chicago, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. The skyscrapers once again topped Preservation Chicago's list of most endangered buildings.
“These are the very last of the early Chicago skyscrapers,” said Ward Miller, executive director of Preservation Chicago, a nonprofit group focused on protecting historically significant architectural structures. “I think a lot of people would get very upset if they were demolished.”Completed in 1915, the 16-story Century Building at 202 S. State St. was designed by Holabird & Roche, a pioneering Chicago architecture firm that built a number of prominent commercial high-rises.
In a notice for the hearings, the government said “there are no federal funds available for rehabilitation, preservation, or restoration of buildings.” “Capturing these buildings as landmarks would send a clear message to the federal government that they have to find a better solution than demolition,” Miller said.Other sites making the 2023 “Chicago 7 Most Endangered” list range from the West Loop birthplace of house music to an ornate Rogers Park warehouse.There are thousands of terra cotta commercial buildings woven into the streetscape across Chicago. Many of them are in danger, according to the group.
Preservation Chicago is urging the commercial corridor be designated a Chicago landmark district, and the buildings incorporated into any redevelopment.In 1975, a commercial warehouse at 206. W. Jefferson St. in the West Loop was transformed into a three-level nightclub, launching what would become a popular entertainment destination for Chicago’s African American and LGBTQ+ community, and an international cultural phenomenon.
“There’s an acknowledgment that it does have this music history,” Miller said. “But it’s next to a one-story restaurant and both could be marketed as teardown sites. That’s what concerns us.”A three-story concrete building at the University of Illinois Chicago campus, Taft Hall is part of the largest collection of Brutalist architecture in the city. Designed by Chicago architect Walter Netsch and completed in 1965, it may be undergoing a dramatic face-lift.
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