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2. Home Insurance Building - Wikipedia

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   The Home Insurance Building was a skyscraper that stood in Chicago from 1885 to its demolition in 1931. Originally ten stories and 138 ft (42.1 m) tall, it was designed by William Le Baron Jenney in 1884 and completed the next year. Two floors were added in 1891, bringing its now finished height to 180 feet (54.9 meters).

3. Metropolitan Tower (Chicago) - Wikipedia

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   Metropolitan Tower (Chicago) The Metropolitan Tower is a skyscraper located at 310 S. Michigan Avenue in Chicago 's Historic Michigan Boulevard District in the Loop community area in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Developed by Metropolitan Properties of Chicago, [1] it has been renovated as a condominium complex with 242 units. [2]

4. New York Life Insurance Building (Chicago) - Wikipedia

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   July 26, 2006. The New York Life Insurance Building is a 14-story building at 39 South LaSalle Street in the Loop neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois. Designed by William Le Baron Jenney, it was completed as a 12-story structure in 1894 at a cost of $800,000, equivalent to $28,172,308 in 2023. [1] In 1898, Jenney designed a 92 ft (28 m) addition ...

5. Early skyscrapers - Wikipedia

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   The Home Insurance Building was a 138-foot (42 m) tall, 10-story skyscraper designed by William Le Baron Jenney, who had been trained as an engineer in France and was a leading architect in Chicago. [51] [nb 5] Jenney's design was unusual in that it incorporated structural steel into the building's internal metal frame alongside the traditional ...

6. MetLife - Wikipedia

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   MetLife, Inc. is the holding corporation for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company ( MLIC ), [3] better known as MetLife, and its affiliates. MetLife is among the largest global providers of insurance, annuities, and employee benefit programs, with around 90 million customers in over 60 countries. [4] [5] The firm was founded on March 24 ...

7. Architecture of Chicago - Wikipedia

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   Numerous architects have constructed landmark buildings of varying styles in Chicago. Among them are the so-called "Chicago seven": James Ingo Freed, Tom Beeby, Larry Booth, Stuart Cohen, James Nagle, Stanley Tigerman, and Ben Weese . Daniel Burnham led the design of the "White City" of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition which some ...