11 Feb downtown chicago’s city-wide outdoor building museum
chicago is frequently regarded as a city-wide “outdoor museum” and a dynamic showcase of architectural achievement, with its streets—particularly within the loop and along the chicago river—displaying a notable array of historic 19th and early 20th century structures.
the city’s architectural profile is distinguished by well-preserved buildings dating from the 1870s (i.e., post-fire commercial and residential structures) to the 1930s, which exemplify its reconstruction and substantial expansion following the great chicago fire of 1871 – the majority of exterior detail images included in this post, represent buildings from the 1880s-1920s.
