Northwestern Terra Cotta Company Building
- Architect
- Theodore Andresen
- Year
- 1905
- Style
- Chicago School
- City
- Chicago, IL
- Collection
- the chicago school
The Northwestern Terra Cotta Company Building at 1701-1711 W. Terra Cotta Place, designed by Theodore Andresen and completed in 1905, housed the offices for one of the country's leading terra cotta manufacturers. Terra cotta was the decorative material of choice for the emerging Chicago school of architecture, and this company's product clad landmarks including the Rookery Building, the Wrigley Building, and the Sullivan Center.
the building
The only surviving piece. The company's production plant behind this office building closed in 1932 and was later largely demolished, leaving the office building as the only major remnant of the operation.
the style
As a Chicago School-era building tied directly to the material, it reflects the period's heavy reliance on terra cotta, the molded ceramic cladding that let architects add decorative detail to steel-frame buildings cheaply and in volume.
More on Chicago Schoolsignificance
The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 8, 1989.
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