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Holabird & Root provides architectural, engineering, interior design, and planning services. It is
Chicago's oldest architecture firm. The firm remains a privately held partnership currently operating with five principals and four associate principals.
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Bruegmann, Robert. Holabird & Roche/Holabird & Root: An
Illustrated Catalog of Works, 1880–1940. New York: Garland Publishing, 1991.
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Bruegmann, Robert. The
Architects and the City: Holabird & Roche of Chicago, 1880–1918. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.
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in 1880. Over the years, the firm has changed its name several times and adapted to the architectural style then current — from
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skyscrapers. An enormously successful practice, they also designed large, ornate hotels across the country, including
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for a while, and two further generations of
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Blaser, Werner. Chicago
Architecture: Holabird & Root, 1880–1992. Basel; Boston: Birkhauser Verlag, 1992.
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In 1928, after the deaths of
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American Building, 36 South State Street (Chicago), 1911
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McConnell Apartments, 1210 North Astor (Chicago), 1897
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University Laboratory High School (Urbana, Illinois)
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