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Close ✕Home Insurance Building, Chicago
A ten-storey office building at the corner of LaSalle and Adams Streets in Chicago, designed by William Le Baron Jenney and completed in 1885, with two further storeys added about 1890.
41.9, -87.6 · approximate · 1885-1931
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- located in Chicago — The building stood at the corner of LaSalle and Adams Streets in the Chicago Loop from 1885 until its demolition in 1931.
- created by William Le Baron Jenney — Jenney, trained as an engineer in France and in the Union army, designed the building and its frame.
- depends on The safety elevator — A ten-storey commercial building only makes economic sense if its upper floors can be reached quickly and safely, which is what the safety elevator provided.
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