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| Mies van der Rohe's 860 and 880 on the left, his Esplanade Apartments on the right |
September 11, 1954 – Three years after the two
26-floor residential buildings at 860 and 880 Lake Shore Drive are completed,
the developers, Herbert S. Greenwald and Samuel N. Katzin, reveal that they
have acquired the block just north of those towers, a lot bordered by Lake
Shore Drive, Walton Street, DeWitt Place, and Delaware Place. The Chicago
Tribune reports that the next project will be similar to the twin towers
just to the south although “the new structures will be more conservative in use
of wall materials than the ‘860’ towers.” [Chicago
Daily Tribune, September 12, 1954]
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