London Guarantee Building

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London Guarantee Building
London Guarantee Building entrance commemorating Fort Dearborn.
Location	360 North Michigan Avenue Chicago, Illinois
Status	Complete
Constructed	1922-1923
Roof	318 feet (97 m)
Floor count	22
Companies
Architect	Alfred S. Alschuler

The London Guarantee Building is a historic building located in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. It is known as one of the four 1920s flanks of the Michigan Avenue Bridge (along with the Wrigley Building, Tribune Tower and 333 North Michigan Avenue). It sits on part of the former site of Fort Dearborn. It was designated a Chicago Landmark on April 16, 1996.^[1] The top of the building resembles the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates in Athens, but it is supposedly modelled after the Stockholm Stadshus.^[2] It is located on the short quarter mile stretch of Michigan Avenue between the Chicago Landmark Historic Michigan Boulevard District and the Magnificent Mile. The building sits on the property that the Hoyt Building sat on from 1872 until 1921.^[3]

For the 1980's and 90's show Perfect Strangers the building was used as the home of the Chicago Chronicle.^{[citation needed]}

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Rotunda ceiling	333 North Michigan, 360 North Michigan, Mather Tower and 35 East Wacker	360 North Michigan, Mather Tower and 35 East Wacker	Michigan Avenue Bridge traffic (Background includes 333 North Michigan, Carbide & Carbon Building, London Guarantee Building, & 35 East Wacker
ca 1951

[edit] Notes

^ London Guarantee Building. City of Chicago Dept. of Pl. and Devpmt., Landmarks Div. (2003). Retrieved on 2007-05-19.
^ London Guarantee Building. Emporis (2007). Retrieved on 2007-05-19.
^ Mayer, Harold M. and Richard C. Wade (1969). Chicago: Growth of a Metropolis. University of Chicago Press.

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