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Title: Robert R. McCormick Lounge, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Ill.
Creator: Achilles, Rolf
Date: 1985-1986
Description: Photograph of McCormick Lounge. The building is located at 3241 South Wabash Avenue, and was designed by Mittelbusher & Tourtelot and...
Show morePhotograph of McCormick Lounge. The building is located at 3241 South Wabash Avenue, and was designed by Mittelbusher & Tourtelot and constructed in 1959. McCormick Lounge serves as the entry point to the McCormick Student Village, which also includes the six residence halls that surround it. The 1992 renovation included work on the dining halls and common areas, as well as a new entrance. The dining hall portion of the building closed in 2003.
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Collection: Mies Centennial records, 1969-1986

Title: Parmly Sound Laboratory, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Ill.
Date: 1950
Description: Date of photograph is unknown. Date listed (1950) is approximate date. Building address is 3322 South Dearborn Street, constructed 1944 ...
Show moreDate of photograph is unknown. Date listed (1950) is approximate date. Building address is 3322 South Dearborn Street, constructed 1944 (demolished ca. 1961). Built to house the laboratory of the Parmly Foundation for Auditory Research. From the time of its construction, this building was not intended to be a permanent structure. Formerly/Also known as: Parmly Laboratory.
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Collection: Technology News slide collection, 1955-1960

Title: Interiors 1 [belly of tube intersecting ceiling]
Creator: Barnes, Richard, 1953-
Date: 2003
Description: Photograph of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology, showing the intersection of the Exelon tube with the...
Show morePhotograph of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology, showing the intersection of the Exelon tube with the ceiling of the interior of the building. The concrete and stainless steel tube encloses a 530-foot stretch of the Chicago Transit Authority's elevated Green Line commuter rail ("L") tracks. Photograph made available via Illinois Tech's institutional repository with the permission of Richard Barnes.
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Collection: McCormick Tribune Campus Center photographs, 2003

Title: Mies Door 1
Creator: Barnes, Richard, 1953-
Date: 2003
Description: Photograph of the exterior of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology. The photograph depicts a portrait of...
Show morePhotograph of the exterior of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology. The photograph depicts a portrait of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe created using the pictographic icon system designed for the building by graphic design firm 2x4. Photograph made available via Illinois Tech's institutional repository with the permission of Richard Barnes.
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Collection: McCormick Tribune Campus Center photographs, 2003

Title: Hallway [northeast corridor]
Creator: Barnes, Richard, 1953-
Date: 2003
Description: Photograph of the northeast corridor of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology. The photograph depicts the use...
Show morePhotograph of the northeast corridor of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology. The photograph depicts the use of conventional glass and orange Panelite, a translucent, honeycomb-patterned, composite paneling material. Photograph made available via Illinois Tech's institutional repository with the permission of Richard Barnes.
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Collection: McCormick Tribune Campus Center photographs, 2003

Title: Interiors 2 [integrated ramp/staircase]
Creator: Barnes, Richard, 1953-
Date: 2003
Description: Photograph of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology, showing integrated ramp and staircase leading from the...
Show morePhotograph of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology, showing integrated ramp and staircase leading from the main level to the food court area below. Photograph made available via Illinois Tech's institutional repository with the permission of Richard Barnes.
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Collection: McCormick Tribune Campus Center photographs, 2003

Title: Interiors 3 [food court looking east]
Creator: Barnes, Richard, 1953-
Date: 2003
Description: Photograph of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology, showing cafeteria/food court on the building's lower...
Show morePhotograph of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology, showing cafeteria/food court on the building's lower level. Photograph made available via Illinois Tech's institutional repository with the permission of Richard Barnes.
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Collection: McCormick Tribune Campus Center photographs, 2003

Title: Rem Mies [Commons seen from inside MTCC]
Creator: Barnes, Richard, 1953-
Date: 2003
Description: Photograph of the Commons Building visible through the windows of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center. The MTCC was connected to Mies van der...
Show morePhotograph of the Commons Building visible through the windows of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center. The MTCC was connected to Mies van der Rohe's Commons Building to provide an interior passageway between the buildings. Photograph made available via Illinois Tech's institutional repository with the permission of Richard Barnes.
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Collection: McCormick Tribune Campus Center photographs, 2003

Title: Founders' Wall 2 [icons]
Creator: Barnes, Richard, 1953-
Date: 2003
Description: Photographic detail of the Founders' Wall at McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology. The photograph shows the...
Show morePhotographic detail of the Founders' Wall at McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology. The photograph shows the pictographic icon system designed for the building by graphic design firm 2x4. On the Founders' Wall, the icons are used to create portraits of Frank Gunsaulus, Allen Lewis, Robert Pritzker, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Photograph made available via Illinois Tech's institutional repository with the permission of Richard Barnes.
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Collection: McCormick Tribune Campus Center photographs, 2003

Title: Computer Hall
Creator: Barnes, Richard, 1953-
Date: 2003
Description: Photograph of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology, showing the recessed central corridor that initially...
Show morePhotograph of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology, showing the recessed central corridor that initially housed the building's "broadband cafe." Photograph made available via Illinois Tech's institutional repository with the permission of Richard Barnes.
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Collection: McCormick Tribune Campus Center photographs, 2003

Title: Tube 6 [with El tracks]
Creator: Barnes, Richard, 1953-
Date: 2003
Description: Photograph of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology, showing State Street Village (now Jeanne and John Rowe...
Show morePhotograph of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology, showing State Street Village (now Jeanne and John Rowe Village) in the foreground, the Exelon tube and the Chicago skyline in the background. The concrete and stainless steel tube encloses a 530-foot stretch of the Chicago Transit Authority's elevated Green Line commuter rail ("L") tracks. Photograph made available via Illinois Tech's institutional repository with the permission of Richard Barnes.
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Collection: McCormick Tribune Campus Center photographs, 2003

Title: Tube 5 [El train speeding through tube]
Creator: Barnes, Richard, 1953-
Date: 2003
Description: Photograph of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology, showing a train moving through the Exelon tube. The...
Show morePhotograph of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology, showing a train moving through the Exelon tube. The concrete and stainless steel tube encloses a 530-foot stretch of the Chicago Transit Authority's elevated Green Line commuter rail ("L") tracks. Photograph made available via Illinois Tech's institutional repository with the permission of Richard Barnes.
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Collection: McCormick Tribune Campus Center photographs, 2003

Title: Tube 7 [El tracks' supporting structure]
Creator: Barnes, Richard, 1953-
Date: 2003
Description: Photograph of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology, showing the Exelon tube and the Green Line tracks from...
Show morePhotograph of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology, showing the Exelon tube and the Green Line tracks from below. The concrete and stainless steel tube encloses a 530-foot stretch of the Chicago Transit Authority's elevated Green Line commuter rail ("L") tracks. Photograph made available via Illinois Tech's institutional repository with the permission of Richard Barnes.
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Collection: McCormick Tribune Campus Center photographs, 2003

Title: Tube 8 [close-up through tube]
Creator: Barnes, Richard, 1953-
Date: 2003
Description: Photograph of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology, showing a the Green Line tracks running through the...
Show morePhotograph of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology, showing a the Green Line tracks running through the Exelon tube. The concrete and stainless steel tube encloses a 530-foot stretch of the Chicago Transit Authority's elevated Green Line commuter rail ("L") tracks. Photograph made available via Illinois Tech's institutional repository with the permission of Richard Barnes.
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Collection: McCormick Tribune Campus Center photographs, 2003

Title: Tube 2 - Chicago skyline in background
Creator: Barnes, Richard, 1953-
Date: 2003
Description: Photograph of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology, showing a train moving through the Exelon tube and the...
Show morePhotograph of the McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology, showing a train moving through the Exelon tube and the Chicago skyline in the background. The concrete and stainless steel tube encloses a 530-foot stretch of the Chicago Transit Authority's elevated Green Line commuter rail ("L") tracks. Photograph made available via Illinois Tech's institutional repository with the permission of Richard Barnes.
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Collection: McCormick Tribune Campus Center photographs, 2003

Title: IIT Tower, Illinois Institute of Technology
Creator: Strohm, Adam
Date: 2015
Description: 10 West 35th Street, Chicago, Illinois
Collection: Building History project (buildinghistory.iit.edu)

Title: The Armour Institute, Mission, and Flats
Date: 1899
Description: One glass slide depicting a drawing or engraving of Armour Institute of Technology, Armour Mission, and Armour Flats at the corner of 33rd and...
Show moreOne glass slide depicting a drawing or engraving of Armour Institute of Technology, Armour Mission, and Armour Flats at the corner of 33rd and Federal Streets. Aerial perspective view from the northeast. Image appears in an article about Armour Institute of Technology in "New England Magazine," May 1899 (or 1897?), p. 356. Artist unknown.
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Collection: Armour Institute of Technology slide, 1899

Title: Main Building and the "Gorge" (Federal Street and the buildings that lined it), Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago, Ill., 1916
Date: 1916
Description: Photograph of the Main Building, designed by Patton & Fisher and constructed 1891-1893, and the other buildings on Federal Street (looking...
Show morePhotograph of the Main Building, designed by Patton & Fisher and constructed 1891-1893, and the other buildings on Federal Street (looking south). Main Building is located at 3300 South Federal Street, and was made a Chicago landmark in 2004. The campus' original heating plant was housed in the extension to the south of the Main Building. This extension has had its smokestacks removed, and now serves as a buildings and grounds storage space. Photographer unknown.
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Collection: Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999

Title: Engineering 1 during construction, Chicago, Ill., 1967
Date: 1967
Description: Photograph of Engineering 1 building, designed by Myron Goldsmith of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, during construction. The building is located...
Show morePhotograph of Engineering 1 building, designed by Myron Goldsmith of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, during construction. The building is located at 10 West 32 Street. The building was renamed John T. Rettaliata Engineering Center in 2015. Photographer unknown.
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Collection: Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999

Title: Institute of Gas Technology, Chicago, Ill., 1945
Date: 1945
Description: Photograph of the Institute of Gas Technology. The building was designed by Alfred S. Alschuler, constructed in 1940-1941 and demolished in...
Show morePhotograph of the Institute of Gas Technology. The building was designed by Alfred S. Alschuler, constructed in 1940-1941 and demolished in 1968. The building is located at 13 West 33rd Street. The building was constructed in the early 1940s to serve as as an Armour Research Foundation laboratory building and soon became the first headquarters of the Institute of Gas Technology. An addition was built for the IGT in 1944. The State Street Building also housed Illinois Tech's temporary gymnasium in the mid-1960s. Some reports indicate that this building included a row of 1880s storefronts along State Street, others that the pre-existing section of structure was built in 1926. The building was also known as: Institute of Gas Technology (1940s), Armour Research Foundation State Street Building (ca. 1945-ca. 1954), Armour Research Foundation Laboratory (1940s), Armour Research Foundation Chemistry Research Building 1 (1950s), Armour Research Foundation Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Building (ca. 1955), IIT Research Institute Laboratory (1960s), IIT Service (1960s). Photographer unknown.
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Collection: Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999

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