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Title: Armour Research Foundation Laboratory and Administration Building during demolition, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1961
Date: 1961
Description: Photograph of Armour Research Foundation Laboratory and Administration Building during demolition, with Armour Mission in the background....
Show morePhotograph of Armour Research Foundation Laboratory and Administration Building during demolition, with Armour Mission in the background. Photographer unknown. Date of photograph unknown. Date listed is approximate. This photograph is located in a folder with photographs of the Armour Mission, but visual evidence indicates that this is instead the Armour Research Foundation Laboratory and Administration Building, formerly part of the Armour Flats.
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Collection: Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999

Title: Demolition of the Armour Research Foundation building at 55 East 33rd Street, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, 1975
Date: 1975
Description: Photograph of the demolition of the Armour Research Building located at 55 East 33rd Street (Wabash Ave & 33rd St) on the Illinois Institute...
Show morePhotograph 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.
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Collection: Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999

Title: Demolition of the Armour Research Foundation building at 55 East 33rd Street, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, 1975
Date: 1975
Description: Photograph of the demolition of the Armour Research Building located at 55 East 33rd Street (Wabash Ave & 33rd St) on the Illinois Institute...
Show morePhotograph 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.
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Collection: Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999

Title: Thomas R. Brown Hall during demolition, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Ill., 1961
Creator: Illinois Institute of Technology. Office of Public Relations
Date: 1961
Description: Photograph of Thomas R. Brown Hall during demolition in 1961. The building was designed by Francis M. Whitehouse of Burling & Whitehouse and...
Show morePhotograph of Thomas R. Brown Hall during demolition in 1961. The building was designed by Francis M. Whitehouse of Burling & Whitehouse and was located at 3254 South Michigan Avenue. Once known as Cudahy mansion, this building was purchased in 1939 for graduate students. It served as one of IIT's Naval housing quarters from approximately 1943-45. After World War II, the building housed graduate students and, from 1948-61, the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. Formerly known as Cudahy Mansion (1880s-1919) , Chicago Motor Club (1919-1929), Quarters 2 (1943-1946), Graduate House (1939-1943, 1946-1948), Brown House (1950s), Brown Hall.
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Collection: Dan Ryan collection, 1954-1980

Title: Demolition of Chapin Hall, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1968
Date: 1968
Description: Photograph of Chapin Hall during demolition in 1968 with Crerar Library visible in the background. Chapin Hall was designed by the firm Patton...
Show morePhotograph of Chapin Hall during demolition in 1968 with Crerar Library visible in the background. Chapin Hall was designed by the firm Patton & Fisher. It was constructed in 1888, renovated in 1937 and demolished in 1968. Built as part of Armour Flats. In 1907, six sections of the building were christened Chapin Hall for Armour Institute use. When Armour Flats was demolished, these units left on Federal St. to the south of the Armour Mission building were left standing. When Chapin Hall was remodeled in 1937, two of its northern sections became the Physics Building. Photographer unknown.
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Collection: Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999

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