Demolition of the Armour Research Foundation building at 55 East 33rd Street, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, 1975
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1975
College buildings
Wrecking
Lost architecture
Armour Research Foundation (U.S.)
Chicago (Ill.)
Photograph of the demolition of the Armour Research Building located at 55 East 33rd Street (Wabash Ave & 33rd St) on the Illinois Institute of Technology campus. The building, built in 1920s, originally housed the Huber and Huber Motor Express trucking terminal. The building was acquired by the Armour Research Foundation in 1949, and renovated in the 1950s. It housed various ARF activities in the subsequent decades, including Physics and Chemistry research, before housing the Institute for Psychological Services in the years immediately prior to its demolition in 1975.
Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999
036.04.01, Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999, Box YY-9, Folder 9, University Archives and Special Collections, Paul V. Galvin Library, Illinois Institute of Technology.
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