October 13, 1954 – The Chicago Board of Education
approves a lease with the Inland Steel Company for the northeast corner of
Dearborn and Monroe Streets, a site on which the company plans to build a six
million-dollar headquarters. It is
anticipated that the lease will bring $84,000 to the school system for at least
20 years. The site is presently occupied
by the seven-story Crilly building, which is owned and managed by the school
board. Inland Steel proposes a building
of 17 stories with 75 percent of the space in the tower available for
rent. The steel company’s plans are to
leave its offices on two floors of the First National Bank building at 38 South
Dearborn Street and use approximately one-third of the space in the new tower. The Crilly Building is shown (with the Bedford Shirt Company store) in the black and white photo. Inland Steel is also shown under construction in 1958 in the photo below it.
October 13, 1952 – Funeral services for architect Robert Seely De Golyer are held in the First Methodist Church in Evanston. De Golyer attended public school in Evanston and went on to earn degrees from Yale University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. De Golyer is largely forgotten these days, but a ride down Lake Shore Drive from the north to the south side will take you past nearly a dozen great residential buildings that he designed. Perhaps most notable are his Barry Apartments at Barry Avenue and Sheridan Road, the Ambassador East Hotel on North State Parkway, and the Powhatan on Chicago Beach Drive. During the Depression when construction came to a virtual halt in the country, the federal Public Works Administration chose the De Golyer to head a group of 15 architects as they designed the Julia C. Lathrop Homes at Diversey Parkway and the Chicago River, a huge complex where ground was broken on October 11, 2017 for revitalization. De Golyer also was a principal architect in the planning of the Pentagon. The photo above shows the meticulous design of De Golyer, this detail at the entrance of 3100 Sheridan Road, The Barry.
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