Everett McKinley Dirksen United States Courthouse
- Architect
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
- Year
- 1964
- Style
- International Style
- City
- Chicago, IL
- Collection
- mies in chicago
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Completed in 1964 at 219 S. Dearborn Street, the Everett McKinley Dirksen United States Courthouse is a 384-foot, 30-story tower designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and named for U.S. Congressman Everett Dirksen. It houses the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, and several other federal courts and agencies.
the building
Part of a modernist complex. The courthouse is one of three buildings in Mies van der Rohe's Chicago Federal Center, along with the Kluczynski Federal Building and the Loop Station post office grouped around Federal Plaza; the related Metcalfe Federal Building sits across Jackson Boulevard from the Kluczynski Building.
the style
The tower is a textbook example of Mies van der Rohe's International Style, applying his steel-and-glass commercial vocabulary to a federal courthouse.
More on International Stylethe architect
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed the Dirksen Courthouse late in his career, folding it into the broader Chicago Federal Center complex he was already building in the Loop.
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nearby
- Chicago Federal Building
- Consumers Building
- Kluczynski Federal Building
- Century Building
- Monadnock Building
- Marquette Building