19 South LaSalle Street
- Architect
- William Le Baron Jenney
- Year
- 1893
- Style
- Chicago School
- City
- Chicago, IL
- Collection
- the chicago school
19 South LaSalle Street was built in 1893 as the Central YMCA Association Building, designed by William Le Baron Jenney and William Bryce Mundie as the firm Jenney & Mundie, completed just before the Panic of 1893. It later housed Central YMCA College starting in 1961 and now operates as a mixed-use retail and office building.
the building
An uncompromising facade. The facade has been described as one of Jenney's most uncompromising: a strict rectangular grid interrupted only by horizontal banding at the 11th and 12th stories.
the style
Chicago School (c. 1880–1910): The first skyscrapers: steel frames shown as honest grids, huge three-part windows, ornament saved for base and top.
More on Chicago Schoolthe architect
William Le Baron Jenney, working here with partner William Bryce Mundie as Jenney & Mundie, is regarded as a pioneering figure of the Chicago School of skyscraper design.
nearby
- Central YMCA Headquarters
- Roanoke Building and Tower
- New York Life Insurance Building, Chicago
- Chicago Loop Synagogue
- One North LaSalle Building
- Chicago Stock Exchange Building