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Berwyn Municipal Building

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The building originally housed Berwyn's city offices, its library, and its police and fire departments. The police department left in the 1960s, and the library closed its branch in the building in the 1980s; the city government and fire department still used the building as of 2001. An addition was
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above the entrance. While the pilasters are in keeping with Moderne design, their prism shape is unusual; they may have been influenced by Burnham's earlier work or by
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Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Cook County, Illinois
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University and college buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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placed on the building in 1991 to give it an elevator in compliance with the
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Streamline Moderne architecture in the United States
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style; their design features square massing, a flat
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Berwyn Municipal Building is located in Illinois
Berwyn Municipal Building is located in the United States
Berwyn, Illinois
41°50′35″N 87°47′28″W / 41.84306°N 87.79111°W / 41.84306; -87.79111
Burnham & Hammond
01000865
Berwyn
Illinois
Public Works Administration
Burnham & Hammond
PWA Moderne
brick
limestone
pilasters
reeding
Czech Cubism
Czech-American
Americans with Disabilities Act
National Register of Historic Places


"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service


"National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Berwyn Municipal Building"
the original

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