Peoples Gas Building

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Location122 S. Michigan Avenue
(80 East Adams Street)
Chicago, Illinois 60603
Coordinates 41°52′47.46″N87°37′29.77″W / 41.8798500°N 87.6249361°W / 41.8798500; -87.6249361
Built1911
Architect Daniel Burnham & Company
Architectural style Beaux-Arts
NRHP reference No. 84000293 [1]
Added to NRHP1984

The Peoples Gas Building is an office building at 122 South Michigan Avenue on the corner of Adams Street in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois.

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Description and history

The 265-foot (81 m) 21-story office building was built from 1910 to 1911 and was designed by D.H. Burnham & Company. [2]

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, and is also a contributing property for Chicago's Michigan Boulevard Historic District.

Since 1999 the building hosts National Louis University. [3]

Since November 5, 2012, the building's sixteenth floor has hosted the chancery of the Philippine Consulate General in Chicago.

Tenants

References

Notes
  1. ↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
  2. ↑ "Peoples Gas Company Building : 122 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Architecture Info". www.chicagoarchitecture.info. Archived from the original on June 20, 2010.
  3. ↑ "History | National Louis University | Chicago, Illinois | Tampa, Florida".
  4. ↑ The Axa Group/Axa Worldwide/North America/United States


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