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Buildings – past and present, extant and non-extant – known to have been used by Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago), 1940 - 2010

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Alpha Epsilon Pi 1960 Mittelbusher and Tourtelot

3350 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago

Residential Fraternity house N/A No Located in “The Quad,” a group of nine buildings built for the IIT fraternities 1958-1960

Built as Alpha Epsilon Pi (?) fraternity house

Alpha Sigma Alpha

1960 Mittelbusher and Tourtelot


Residential Sorority house N/A No Located in “The Quad,” a group of nine buildings built for the IIT fraternities 1958-1960

Built as Theta Xi (?) fraternity house One of IIT’s three sorority communities

Alpha Sigma Phi 1960 Harry Weese; William Goodman, consulting engineer



Built as Alpha Sigma Ph (?) fraternity house

Alumni Memorial Hall

1946 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

3201 S. Dearborn St., Chicago

Academic Academic N/A Yes First academic (i.e., classroom) building designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to be built on the IIT campus

Originally identified as “Navy Building,” it was designed to house the Naval ROTC program

The double-height armory space was converted to other uses in 1972, and # ? bays were divided into two floors

Dedicated as Alumni Memorial Hall in 1946 to the memory of IIT’s alumni and students who were killed in action during World War II

Currently (2009) houses the Department of Civil Engineering, Industrial Waste Elimination Research Center, Pritzker Department of Environmental Engineering offices and classrooms.

Arcade Building 1920s Unknown 35th & State Sts., Chicago

Research and administration

Non-extant 1962 N/A Built by African-American entrepreneur Jesse Binga in the 1920s Original use: commercial; served as an anchor for Bronzeville businesses At five stories and he tallest building in the area, it was the neighborhood’s

“skyscraper.” Together with the Binga Bank next to it, it was purchased by Armour Research

Foundation and IIT in 1952 Housed Armour Research Foundation administrative offices, 1952 – ca. 1962

Armour Flats 1888 Patten & Fisher Armour Ave.

Academic Non-extant Portions razed in

N/A Built by Philip Danforth Armour, Sr. as rental to the Armour meatpacking company employees (and later faculty of the Armour Institute) to provide financial support

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(previously known as Butterfield St. and now known as Federal St.) and 34th St., Chicago

1917 and 1919. Final portions razed in 1986.

for Armour Mission. Surrounded the block on which Armour Mission stood. Originally held 213 separate suites of apartments. The office of Armour Flats was at 3322 Armour Ave. (previously, Butterfield St.;

currently, Federal St.) Portions of the buildings were razed by P. D. Armour in 1917 56 units on the west side of Federal St. and 18 units on 34th St. were razed in 1919 Sections of the Flats that were left (around 63) were used by Armour Institute and

IIT as classrooms, lab, and office space for physics and psychology programs, and identified as Chapin Hall

Portions used by AIT and IIT, 1909 – 1986Armour Institute Laboratory

1901 Patten & Fisher 3240 S. Federal St, Chicago

Maintenance Maintenance; laboratory

N/A The building is generally not open unless it is in use for some program.

Third building to be constructed as part of the Armour Institute of Technology complex. Opened in 1917 as an internal combustion laboratory.

Housed the school’s academic engineering laboratories Other names include: AIT Laboratory; Maintenance Garage; Carpenter Shop Concrete block walls later added to inside of building. Later served as a garage, storage. and ROTC shooting range. Currently (2009) used by IIT where it houses the student organization Society for

Automotive Engineers, and is used by the Facilities DepartmentArmour Mission 1886 Burnham & Root 33rd &

Butterfield (now Federal) Sts., Chicago

Auditorium; student union

Non-extant 1962 N/A The Armour Mission building was built by Philip D. Armour to house a church congregation and social service organizations which provided spiritual, educational and recreational programs.

Later used by Armour Institute and IIT variously as an auditorium, a lecture hall, the student union, and a faculty club

Armour Research Building

Information not available

Unknown 35 W. 33rd St., Chicago

Research and Administrative

Non-extant N/A Armour Research Foundation (AKA Armour Research Foundation of Armour Institute of Technology) was founded 1936. In 1945, the name was changed to Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology. The name was later changed to IIT Research Institute in 1963.

Uncertain which historic building is being referenced; the building name may refer to part of the original Armour Mission/Armour Flats complex if 33rd St. address is correct.

Alternate names of Armour Research Foundation Laboratory and Armour Research Foundation Laboratory and Administration Building may refer to same building or may refer to a different historic commercial building on State St.

Armour Research Foundation Magnetic Recording Lab


Unknown Non Extant 1957 N/A Location uncertain; may have been part of the original Armour Flats. AKA Field House Beanery

Art Institute of 1893 Shepley, Rutan Michigan Academic Art museum; not N/A N/A Built as a museum and art school ca. 1890


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Chicago Building & Coolidge Ave. & Adams St., Chicago(not on IIT campus)

associated with IIT Through a joint arrangement of the two organizations, it housed classroom space and offices for Armour Institute of Technology and Illinois Institute of Technology architecture department, 1893 – ca. 1945.

Location of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s academic office 1938 – 1945

Arthur Keating Hall

1968 Myron Goldsmith/SOM


Athletic facility

Athletic facility N/A Access to interior beyond the lobby area is restricted.

Built as IIT athletic building, including an indoor pool. Named for Arthur Keating, Armour alumnus and IIT Trustee Funding sources include Arthur Keating, the Arthur Keating Foundation, and the

Ekco Foundation.

Association of American Railroads [AAR] – Laboratory Building (Addition)

1960 Schmidt, Garden & Erikson

3120 S. Federal St., Chicago

Research Rental property leased to Chicago Transit Authority

N/A No Part of Association of American Railroads [AAR] Complex The addition to the north of the original building includes the tower 1st section, identified as Building 3 elsewhere in this document, was built in 1956

Association of American Railroads [AAR] Building 1 – Administration / Technical Center


3140 S. Federal St. (32nd and Federal), Chicago

Administration and research

Rental facility leased to Vander Cook College of Music

N/A See Vander Cook College of Music

Built as part of the Association of American Railroads [AAR] complex. Also called the Research Building (and AAR Technical Center ?) 1996 to present (2009) houses Vander Cook College of Music

Association of American Railroads [AAR] Building 2 - Mechanical Engineering



Research Rental facility leased to Chicago Transit Authority

N/A No Part of the Association of American Railroads [AAR] Complex Currently leased by the Chicago Transit Authority, which uses them for instruction

of trainees in safety measures and repair of transit vehicles A small building along 31st St. by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe houses a compressor

Association of American Railroads [AAR] Building 3 – Laboratory Building


3120 S. Dearborn Ave., Chicago

Research Rental facility leased to Chicago Transit Authority

N/A No Built as part of Association of American Railroads [AAR] complex A free standing small building to the northwest designed by Ludwig Mies van der

Rohe as an explosion proof storage building In 1960 a tower was added to the building at the north Currently leased by the Chicago Transit Authority, which uses them for instruction

of trainees in safety measures and repair of transit vehicleAutomotive Laboratory

1917 (?) Unknown N/A N/A May be the building at 3240 S. Federal St.

Bailey Hall Apartments


3101 S. Wabash Ave.,

Residential Residential N/A Access to interior beyond the

Fourth apartment building on campus. Named for Alex D. Bailey, Lewis Institute alumnus and Trustee; also an IIT Trustee Built as an apartment building for IIT faculty and married students


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Chicago lobby area is restricted.

Dedicated on November 3, 1955

Binga Bank 1920s Unknown 3452 S. State St., Chicago

Administration Non-extant ca. 1962 N/A Built by Jesse Binga in the 1920s to house the Binga Bank (its second (?) location) Together with the Arcade Building next to it, the bank building was purchased by

Armour Research Foundation and IIT in 1952. Housed Armour Research Foundation administrative offices, 1952 – ca. 1962 IIT’s Tower building at 35th and State Sts. now stands on the site

Bog, The 1894 Unknown 3241 S. Federal St., Chicago

Athletics Non-extant Closed in 1960

N/A AKA Ogden Field A plot of land, originally surrounded by an iron fence, was set aside by J. Ogden

Armour to become the recreation field for Armour Institute of Technology The iron fence was donated to the World War II metals collection project The athletic field was nicknamed “The Bog” because of its rain soaked condition

with the slightest rainfall The site is now occupied by Hermann Hall which houses The Bog, the campus pub

and recreation centerBoiler Plant and Steam Generating Plant



Maintenance Maintenance N/A No Built in two stages: 1945-50 – 5 south bays; 1964 – 6 bays added to the north. Complex includes a test cell for gas pumping at Federal and 35th St. and oil booster

pump and metering plant (south of chimney) Wall along Federal St. formed a coal storage yard to the north

Buildings and Grounds Storage Building

1893 Patten & Fisher 3322 S. Federal St., Chicago

Maintenance Maintenance N/A No A small building to the south of Main Building, formerly the heating plant for Main Building

Chimneys have been removed and new windows have been installed.Carman Hall Apartments


60 E. 32nd St., Chicago

Residential Residential N/A Access to interior beyond the lobby area is restricted.

Named for George Noble Carman, founding director of Lewis Institute Second campus “apartment building” intended for staff, faculty and married student

housing.

Carr ChapelSee Robert F. Carr ChapelCentral Electrical Vault


Maintenance Maintenance N/A No The building complies with the campus module, but is notable for its brick wall-bearing construction.

Chapin Hall 1888 Patten & Fisher East side of Federal St. between 33rd

and 34th Sts., Chicago

Academic; Administration

Non-extant 1968 N/A Built as part of Armour Flats. After Armour Flats were demolished, 63 units were left on Federal St. to the south of the Armour Mission building.

They were renovated in 1937 for use by Armour Institute of Technology and named Chapin Hall for Simeon B. Chapin, an AIT trustee

Housed the engineering societies, a large drafting room, offices of the Fulcrum,


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Armour Engineer, and Integral (campus publications), and Board of Athletic Council

Stretched over 5 floors with separate stairwells, it was necessary to go down to ground level, cross over, and go up again to reach upper level floors.

The Hall was also used by IIT until 1968, housing the psychology (and other?) departments and faculty offices

It also housed the “Experimental Stress Analysis Laboratory” in Room 332.Chemistry Research Building



Research Rental property leased to research-based companies

N/A Access to interior beyond the lobby area is restricted.

Built as the Armour Research Foundation Chemistry Research Building Dedicated on May 10, 1949 Later used by IIT Research Institute for Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Life

Sciences Research; currently (as of 2009), the building is part of IIT’s University Technology Park

Other names include: IITRI Chemistry Research; Technology Business Center I

Chicago Historical Society Building

1892 Henry Ives Cobb 632 N. Dearborn St., Dearborn at Ontario Sts., Chicago(Not on IIT campus.)

Academic Excalibur nightclub; not associated with IIT

N/A N/A Built for Chicago Historical Society; housed the Society’s collections until 1931 Housed the Institute of Design 1946 – 1956

Chicago Kent College of Law


Unknown 10 N. Franklin St., Chicago(Not on IIT campus.)

Academic Non-extant ? ???? N/A Chicago-Kent’s first location was in the Athenaeum Building at 18-26 Van Buren St.

In 1912 it moved to the Lakeview Building at 116 S. Michigan Avenue. In 1924 it took over its own six-story building at 10 North Franklin Street. It occupied the building as 77 S. Wacker Dr. ca. 1975-1991. Moved to 565 W. Adams Street, a building built by IIT for the law school, in 1992,

the building later to be known as IIT’s Downtown Campus. Auxiliary space rented by Chicago-Kent over the years included the following

locations: 130 N. Wells St; Wells and Randolph; Wells and Madison; 1 S. Wacker.Chicago Kent College of Law


Unknown 116 S. Michigan Ave.,Chicago




locations: 130 N. Wells St; Wells and Randolph; Wells and Madison; 1 S. Wacker.


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Chicago Kent College of Law


Unknown 18-26 Van Buren St., Chicago






Unknown 77 S. Wacker Dr., Chicago





1992 Gerald Horn/Holabird & Root

565 W. Adams Street, Chicago, (Adams at Jackson) (IIT’s downtown campus)

Academic IIT’s Downtown Campus housing Chicago-Kent College of Law and Stuart School of Business

N/A See Downtown Campus

Chicago-Kent’s first location was in the Athenaeum Building at 18-26 Van Buren St.



locations: 130 N. Wells St; Wells and Randolph; Wells and Madison; 1 S. Wacker.Civil Engineering Building


Unknown 3420 S. Federal St.. Chicago

Academic Non-extant ???? N/A Location of laboratory facilities of the Department of Civil Engineering prior to the department’s move into Alumni Memorial Hall.

Cogeneration Plant 1991 National Energy Systems

3400 (?) S. Federal St., Chicago

Maintenance Heating plant N/A No A $10 million electrical plant whose steam would heat the IIT campus. Houses a steam turbine generator fuelled by natural gas which generates 9 MW of electricity.

Designed, built, operated and maintained by Lombard-based National Energy Systems, a subsidiary of the Marmon Group.

This new plant like the old boiler plant can be converted to fuel oil if gas is cut off. The old boiler was (is?) available as a back up.

Dedicated in March 1991.Commons Building


3200 S. Wabash Ave.,

Dining Dining hall/cafeteria

N/A The building is generally

Built as the campus cafeteria. Also housed various retail businesses over the years, including the following:

campus bookstore; valet shop; barber shop; post office; 7-Eleven grocery store


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Chicago open during the day when school is in session. Campus visitors are welcome to enter the building through MTCC and can purchase a meal.

(1985-2003); dry cleaners (1985-1991); pizzeria; automatic banking facility, Basement originally housed recreation and meeting rooms and a bowling alley.

Later housed campus offices including Public Relations, Pre-University and Minority Programs, housing office, and the Newman Center.

The building was renovated in 2002. All retail activities and university offices were removed, and the building was returned to its original use as the campus’s primary dining facility for students, employees, and visitors. Campus catering services and food preparation activities occupy the basement level.

A new entrance at the south-east corner was created in 2002 to allow direct entrance into McCormick Tribune Campus Center.

Crown HallSee S. R. Crown HallCrystal Lake Property


Unknown Crystal Lake, Illinois

Academic; Research

No longer owned/used by IIT

???? N/A Formerly, the Pure Oil Co. facility, 107 acres with six buildings. Gift to IIT, from Union Oil Company of California June 1967. IIT sold the

property ca. April 1979. The property was used for educational and research activities. Evening courses in business administration, information science, engineering and

sciences and city and regional planning were offered during the fall 1970-71 semesters.

Cudahy Residence 1886 Burling & Whitehouse

3254 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago

Residential Non-extant ???? N/A Built as a private residence Victorian mansion, it had (at some point) 40 rooms. Between 1919 and 1928, the Chicago Motor Club occupied the home. Used by AIT and IIT to house students, 1939 – 1961 Other names include: Graduate House; Brown Hall; Quarters 1 (during WW-II). During WWII, it housed Navy V-12 students.

Cunningham Hall Apartments




Third apartment building to be built on campus to house IIT faculty and staff, and married students.

Named in honor of James D. Cunningham, AIT and IIT trustee. Dedicated on November 3, 1955.

Delta Kappa Sigma


Unknown 3240 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago

Residential Non-extant ???? N/A Phi Kappa Sigma house ca. 1928 Previously, Delta Tau Delta’s 2nd house (ca. 1919) May have been an Armour family residence originally.


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Delta Tau Delta 1960 Alfred J. Mell - Mell & Fox Associates


Residential Fraternity house N/A No Located in “The Quad,” a group of nine buildings built for the IIT fraternities 1958-1960.

Built as Delta Tau Delta (?) fraternity house

Downtown Campus


565 W. Adams, Chicago (IIT’s downtown campus)


IIT’s Downtown Campus housing Chicago-Kent College of Law and Stuart School of Business

N/A Yes 10 storey building built by IIT (opened 1992) for Chicago-Kent College of Law. Later known as IIT’s Downtown Campus when Stuart School of Business was

relocated there from main campus in 1994.

Downtown Campus Library


565 W. Adams Street, Chicago (IIT’s downtown campus)

Library Library located in IIT’s Downtown Campus

N/A See Downtown Campus

Serving Chicago-Kent College of Law and Stuart School of Business

Downtown Center Information not available


Academic No longer used by IIT

???? N/A Opened September 24, 1945. Housed the Department of Home Economics (relocated from the Lewis Campus)

and the Department of Architecture (relocated from the Art Institute of Chicago building)

Also offered graduate and undergraduate evening courses; also Russian and Dutch classes taught there

Downtown Center Information not available

Unknown 77 So. Wacker Dr., Chicago

Chicago-Kent College of Law

No longer used by IIT

???? N/A The term “downtown center” was used ca. the late 1980s to identify this property in the Chicago Loop owned by IIT and sold in anticipation of constructing the new building at 565 W. Adams which later became known as the “Downtown Campus.”

East Hall 1963 Mittelbusher & Tourtelot


Residential Residential N/A No Built as a dormitory, this is one of the six residence halls on the campus. Prior to the construction of State Street Village (opened 2003), the Residence Hall

Complex, AKA McCormick Student Village, consisted six dorms, all linked by a lounge and dining room

All built between 1958 and 1959Economic – Mechanics Building

1942 Unknown 3228 S. Federal St., Chicago

Academic Non Extant ca. 1973 N/A One of the five temporary buildings donated to IIT (government surplus) after World War II.

Contained general classrooms and meeting facilities. Used by the Institute of Design and for a Civil Engineering Lab.

Engineering 1 Building


10 W. 32nd St., Chicago

Academic Academic N/A Yes Built for (?) the Materials, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department. Later housed the Pritzker Institute of Medical Engineering and the Fluid Dynamics

Research Center, which includes a wind tunnel. To the west, a twin to Engineering I, which was to be known as Engineering II, has

not been completed except for its fully usable basement (under the lawn).


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To the south of Engineering I is a memorial bench and marker donated by Tau Beta Pi in 1981 to commemorate 75 years of undergraduate engineering at Armour Institute and IIT.

Engineering Building


Unknown 55 W. 34th Street, Chicago

N/A N/A This address tracks to the UTP Incubator Building (as of 2010). It is un clear what historic building this entry refers to

Engineering II 1967 ? Myron Goldsmith/SOM (?)

??? Storage (?) No A building to be known as Engineering II (a twin in design to Engineering I) was planned for the space west of Engineering I. Engineering II was not built except for its fully usable basement (under the lawn)

Engineering Research Building

1944 / 1945 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe




Built for Armour Research Foundation to house laboratories for research in ceramics, fluid mechanics, engines, and heat transfer.

Other names include: IITRI Engineering Research Building; Ceramic Building; Incubator

The south section housed IIT’s library before the Crerar / Kemper Library was built. The Food and Drug Administration maintains laboratory space (as of 2009?) Housed the Ohmite Laboratory ca. 1945 when the building opened; lab funded by

David Siegel for ca. $30,500.Engineering Research Storage Building


???????? Maintenance Rental property leased to research-based companies

N/A No Originally called as “Armour Research Foundation Engineering Research Storage Building.”

Two storage sheds of brick were connected to the east facade of ARF Engineering Research Building three years after its construction.

Farr Hall 1948 Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

55 E. 34th St., Chicago

Residential Administrative offices


Originally constructed as a student residence hall, it was the only residence hall not linked to the dormitory complex built after 1958 which centered on McCormick Lounge.

Named for Charlotte C. Farr, mother of Newton C. Farr, IIT Trustee. Farr Hall now (2009) houses the IIT Department of Public Safety.

Fowler Hall 1948 Skidmore, Owings & Merrill


Residential Residential N/A No Built as a residence hall, the first to be built on the IIT campus. Named in memory of Harriet O. Fowler who stipulated in her will that a dormitory

be built at IIT. With the construction, between 1958 and 1963, of five other dormitories and a

lounge and dining room linking them all, the Residence Hall Complex was created.Freund Instrumentation Laboratory

1948 Lab redesign (?) done by ????

107, Chemistry Building (i.e., Wishnick Hall)

Academic Academic laboratory

N/A No Located in Wishnick Hall Dedicated on September 28, 1951. Named in memory of Erwin O. Freund, founder of the Visking Corporation, who

attended Armour Institute of Technology, 1902-1904. Lab was established by Dr. Martin Kilpatrick, chairman. of the Department of

Chemistry.Gas Dynamics Laboratory

Ca. 1940s Unknown 3240 S. Federal St.,

See Armour Institute

N/A See Armour

This building is referenced in Ac. No. 2002.041;apparently a laboratory located in the Armour Institute Laboratory building., q. v.


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Chicago Laboratory Institute Laboratory

Glessner House 1887 Henry Hobson Richardson

Prairie Ave. & 18th St., Chicago

Academic Historic house museum; no longer associated with IIT

N/A N/A Built as the residence of the John J. Glessner family. Donated to Armour Institute of Technology in 1938 by Ms. Francis G. Mead Housed IIT Human Engineering (psychology and vocational aptitudes) Laboratory,

1938 – ca. 1958.Government Surplus Buildings

1946 (received)

Unknown Various Various Non-extant ???? N/A Government surplus building became available after WW II under the Lanham Bill amendment. IIT applied for buildings totally 50,000 square feet to provide auxiliary classroom, cafeteria, and library space.

At least 4 (perhaps a total of 5) of these temporary buildings were acquired by IIT.Graduate Hall 1958 Mittelbusher &

Tourtelot3241 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago


Complex, AKA McCormick Student Village, consisted six dorms, all linked by a lounge and dining room, all built between 1958 and 1959.

Additions were made in 1965-66.Graham Resource Center

1955 Library space expansion done in 2008 by Tom Brock of IIT

In lower level ofS. R. Crown Hall

Library Architecture library located in Crown Hall

N/A See S. R. Crown Hall

Located on the lower level of S.R. Crown Hall, GRC is IIT’s architecture library – a branch of IIT’s main library.

AKA: IIT’s architecture library. Opened in 1993 with funding provided via a grant from the Graham Foundation.

Grover M. Hermann Hall

1962 Walter Netsch / Skidmore, Owings & Merrill


Student Union Administrative offices, meeting rooms; ballroom; auditorium; lower level has a bowling alley and “the Bog” bar

N/A The building is generally open during the day when school is in session. Campus visitors are welcome to enter the building and see the main floor.

Named for Grover M. Hermann, chairman of Martin Marietta Co. and an IIT life trustee

AKA: Hermann Union Building; HUB The original precast stone porch has been replaced with granite Houses McCormick Auditorium and the Center for the Study of Ethics in the

Professions Also houses The Bog, the campus pub and recreation center

Gunsaulus Hall Apartments

1949 Skidmore, Owings & Merrill



Names after the first president of Armour Institute of Technology, Frank W. Gunsaulus.

First apartment building on campus; built as housing for faculty, staff , and married students.


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Harold Leonard Stuart Building


10 W. 31st St., Chicago

Academic Academic N/A Yes Named for Harold Leonard Stuart, a Lewis Institute alumnus. Originally built to house the Department of Business which later became the School

of Business). Later housed the Department of Computer Science; ROTC units; the William F.

Finkl Interactive Instructional Television Network (IIT/V); the Academic Computing Center.

A satellite dish was installed on the roof in 1985.Heating Plant – 3 sections

1949, 1958, 1965

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe


Maintenance Maintenance N/A No The first section was built in 1949. Two additional sections were added in 1958 and 1965.

Hermann HallSee Grover M. Hermann Hall

HUB, TheSee Grover M. Hermann Hall

Huber and Huber Motor Express Building

1920S ? Unknown 55 E. 33rd St., Chicago

Administration Non-extant ???? N/A The Huber and Huber Motor Express building was acquired by Armour Research Foundation in 1949.

Housed ARF administrative offices, 1950 – ca. 1966 so research labs could have expanded space in other ARF buildings.

AKA: Armour Research Foundation Chemistry Research Building 2Ice Lab (IITRI Lab)

1913 Unknown 3301 S. Dearborn St., Chicago

Research Non-extant 1956 N/A An early campus building on the site of the current Siegel Hall.

IIT Research Institute Tower


10 W. 35th St., Chicago

Research; Administration

University administrative offices and IITRI research operations; leased space


Illinois Institute of Technology Research Institute Tower, aka IITRI Tower - the tallest building (20 stories building) on IIT’s campus, houses the university’s research affiliate.

Dedicated on April 27, 1966. A tunnel connects Research Tower and Chemistry Research Building to the west

making it possible to reach almost all areas of (the former) IITRI complex without going outdoors.

Currently (2009) houses IIT’s Office of Institutional Advancement on the 17th floor. A glass enclosed connection to the (former) IGT South Building dates from 1964

and houses an auditorium dedicated in November 1978 to Dr. E. H. Schulz.Institute of Design Information

not availableUnknown 4th Floor

350 N. La Salle St., Chicago

Academic Academic N/A Access to interior beyond the lobby area is restricted.

The school’s first location was at 1905 South Prairie Ave, the former Marshall Field mansion designed by Richard Morris Hunt. The residence was redesigned by Henry Holsman and used for one year (1937) by The New Bauhaus, later The Institute of Design.

In 1939 the school relocated to 247 East Ontario St. and reopened as the School of Design.


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In 1945 the school occupied 1009 North State Street, later moving to 632 North Dearborn (the former Chicago Historical Society building designed in 1892 by Henry Ives Cobb; now (2009) the Excalibur nightclub).

In 1955 ID moved to IIT’s main campus, into the lower level of Crown Hall, and in 1992 relocated to the IIT Research Institute building (IITRI Tower) also on the main campus.

ID is currently (as of 2009) housed at the 350 N. LaSalle, just north of the Chicago River in downtown Chicago, in a building owned by Steelcase when ID moved in but subsequently sold to ???

Institute of Gas Technology – Central Building


3424 S. State St, Chicago

Research; Administration

Rental facility with spaces leased to various businesses


Originally built as the third (of three) buildings which formed the IGT complex. Currently (2009) houses Shimer College (The Great Books College of Chicago),

which relocated to the IIT campus in 2006.

Institute of Gas Technology – Crossover


Research Pedestrian circulation

N/A No Infill structure which connects the South and Central IGT buildings.

Institute of Gas Technology – North Building


3424 S. State St., Chicago

Research College of Architecture annex building (faculty offices)


First building to be constructed as part of the IGT complex. (The Institute of Gas Technology was an independent, international, not-for-profit energy research and education organization established on the IIT campus in 1941. Currently (2009) known as the Gas Technology Institute, it relocated to Des Plaines, IL sometime after 1967).

Internal changes were made in 1954. Renovations (ADA accommodations and other) were done in ca. 200 when the

building housed the Young Women’s Leadership Charter School (which has since moved from the IIT campus).

Currently (2009), the building houses offices and classrooms for the IIT College of Architecture.

Institute of Gas Technology – Power Plant



Maintenance Power plant N/A No Part of the IGT complex Intended as a total energy center providing heat and electricity from gas generators

(removed 1975/76) It now (2009) houses a boiler, a research lab, and a loading dock. The walls enclosing the parking area are a later addition.

Institute of Gas Technology - South Building



Research Rental facility partially leased to Shimer College

N/A Access to interior beyond the lobby area is

Originally built as a research facility as part of the Institute of Gas Technology complex.

Later used by Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology when IGT moved from the IIT campus.

Housed the Univac 1105 computer (not extant), and the first industrial nuclear


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restricted. reactor in U.S. (dismantled in 1977/78) AKA: Physics and Electrical Engineering Research Building (PER Building)

James Kemper Library


35 W. 33rd St., Chicago

Library See Paul V. Galvin Library

N/A See Paul V. Galvin Library

Built as The John Crerar Library’s new facility when the Crerar, a private library dedicated to math and science established in Chicago in 18__ by John Crerar, left it’s downtown Loop location in 1962.

Also housed the James S. Kemper Library (IIT’s academic library) upon construction.

The building was renovated in 1985 when the Crerar Library declined to renew its lease with IIT. (The Crerar Library moved to the University of Chicago.)

The building was rededicated and renamed as the Paul V. Galvin Library in memory of the founder on Motorola.

Currently (2009) serves as IIT’s main library, housing both print and digital resources. Also houses the IIT University Archives.

The library air conditioning tower (1962) stands to the south of the building.John Crerar Library


Former location: 35 W. 33rd St., Chicago Currently located on The University of Chicago campus.

Library See Paul V. Galvin Library

N/A See Paul V. Galvin Library






The library air conditioning tower (1962) stands to the south of the building.Kappa Phi Delta 1960 Mittelbusher

And Tourtelot3330 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago

Residential Sorority house N/A No Built as (?) Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity house Currently (as of 2009) one of IIT’s three sorority communities. Located in “The Quad,” a group of nine buildings built for the IIT fraternities 1958-

1960Keating HallSee Arthur Keating Hall

Keith School 1884 Unknown 34th and Dearborn Streets

Public elementary school

Non-extant 1960 N/A Presumable built as public elementary school, this was the last (?) historic building on the IIT campus to be razed. After use as a school was discontinued, the building housed the Chicago Police Department training academy and was finally torn down in 1960.

Law House ca. 1961 3241 S. Wabash Ave.,

Residential Residential N/A No Located in “The Quad,” a group of nine buildings built for the IIT fraternities 1958-1960

Renovated ca. 2000 as a residence hall for law students


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ChicagoLewis Hall 1958 Mittelbusher &


Residential Residential N/A No One of the six residence halls on the campus; built as IIT’s first dormitory for women

Named for Allen C. Lewis, founded of Lewis Institute. Houses Mollie Cohen Lounge which was dedicated April 16, 1980 to Mollie Cohen,

a 1924 Lewis Institute alumna who served Lewis and IIT for 56 years as an English teacher

Additions were made in 1965-66 (?).Lewis Institute 1895 Henry Ives Cobb 1951 W.

Madison St., Chicago


Non-extant ???? N/A In 1877 Allen C. Lewis, a Chicago real estate investor, died and left his substantial estate for the creation of a college to serve Chicago’s immigrant populations. His will detailed the requirements of the facility as well as the school’s curriculum which included engineering, science, and the arts.

Lewis Institute was strategically located at the intersection of Madison and Robey (now Damen) Sts. This location served as a transfer point for two of Chicago’s 19th

century streetcar lines making the school easily accessible by public transportation. At least two other buildings were built on the property surrounded by Damen,

Madison, Wood, and Monroe Sts. for Lewis Institute’s growing academic programs.

In 1939, Lewis Institute and Armour Institute of Technology merged, creating Illinois Institute of Technology.

The Lewis Institute complex continued to be used by IIT until 1946 when is was sold to the City of Chicago (?) which used it to house the Cook County Department of Welfare until 19??.

Chicago’s United Center (home of the Chicago Bulls and the Blackhawks) currently sits on the location.

Life Sciences Building

1966 Myron Goldsmith


Academic Academic N/A Yes IIT’s original campus plan included a building to be identified as “Lewis Building” (commemorating Lewis Institute, one of IIT’s predecessor schools) and meant to house the general sciences, humanities, and liberal arts programs. The humanities department is housed in Siegle Hall, the name given to the intended building on its construction.

By 1966 when Life Sciences Building was built, the Lewis name association had been lost.

Life Sciences Research Building


35 W. 34th St., Chicago



Built as Armour Research Foundation’s Mechanical Engineering Research Building where it served as offices and laboratory space for ARF

Intended as a research facility for heat transfer, design of weapons systems, stress analysis and life science research.

9 bay addition to the north in 1961 by Schmidt, Garden & Erikson. AKA: Mechanical Research Building; Mechanical and Electrical Engineering

Research Building; IITRI Center Later (ca. 2005) included in the buildings at the south end of campus being


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renovated for the creation of “University Technology Park” with space leased to private R&D companies.

Currently (as of 2009) used for Electronics Research and Life Science ResearchMachinery Hall 1901 C. V. Kerr –

Patten & Fisher100 W. 33rd St., Chicago

Academic Facilities offices & storage

N/A Access to facilities office (Room 200) only.

Built for Armour Institute as a classroom building with labs and equipment for teaching the mechanical arts classes.

AKA: Mechanical Engineering Building Building was a gift from Malvina Armour in memory of her son, Philip D. Armour,

Jr. Recognized as Chicago Landmark, 2004 Currently (as of 2009) houses the IIT Facilities offices and storage In continuous use by Armour Institute of Technology and Illinois Institute of

Technology since built.Main Building 1893 Patten & Fisher 3300 S.

Federal St., Chicago

Academic;Administration

Administrative offices

N/A Yes Originally the principal classroom structure of Armour Institute. In continuous use by Armour Institute of Technology and Illinois Institute of Technology since built.

The columns, capitals and other external ornamentation are of terra cotta. Recognized as Chicago Landmark, 2004. Included administrative offices, classrooms, and labs; also housed the AIT library

and gymnasium Stained glass window at the head of the central staircase is dedicated to Philip D.

Armour, Jr. (died 1900) Over the years, Main Building has housed a variety of IIT academic and

administrative offices and classrooms, including the architecture program at one point.

Attic tower burned and was torn down in winter 1950. The adjacent small building to the south is the former heating plant for the Main

Building.Maintenance Garage

1901 Patten & Fisher 3240 S. Federal St, Chicago

Academic See Armour Institute Laboratory

N/A See Armour Institute Laboratory

Third building to be constructed as part of the Armour Institute of Technology complex. Opened in 1917 as an internal combustion laboratory.

Housed the school’s academic engineering laboratories Other names include: AIT Laboratory; Maintenance Garage; Carpenter Shop Concrete block walls later added to inside of building. Later served as a garage, storage. and ROTC shooting range. Currently (2009) used by IIT where it houses the student organization Society for

Automotive Engineers, and is used by the Facilities DepartmentMandel Residence Ca. 1890s L. B. Dixon 3400

Michigan Ave., Chicago

Residential Non-extant 1958 N/A Built as the home of the Emanuel and Babette Mandel family Housed student–soldiers during WW I

Marshall Field Mansion

1876 Richard Morris Hunt

1905 S. Prairie Ave.,

Academic Non-extant ???? N/A Built as the home of the Marshall Field family residence. Chicago entrepreneur Marshall Field founded the “Field’s” chain of department stores.


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Chicago It was later redesigned by Henry Holsman and used for one year, 1937, by László Moholy-Nagy as The New Bauhaus (which later became the Institute of Design)

McCormick Lounge and Dining Hall

1959 Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

3241 South Wabash St. Chicago

Residential; Dining

Residential N/A No The Robert R. McCormick Lounge, located in the residence hall complex, was dedicated on January 27, 1960.

Prior to the construction of State Street Village (opened 2003), the Residence Hall Complex, AKA McCormick Student Village, consisted six dorms, all linked by the lounge and a dining room

All built between 1958 and 1959.McCormick Student Village

1963 Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; Mittelbusher & Tourtelot



Prior to the construction of State Street Village (opened 2003), the Residence Hall Complex, (AKA McCormick Student Village) consisted six dorms, all linked by a lounge and dining room

All built between 1958 and 1959. Dedicated on January 27, 1960. The six inter connected dormitories are: Fowler Hall; East Hall; Graduate Hall;

Lewis Hall; North Hall; South Hall. A new main entrance on the west side of the complex was designed by IIT

Architects, the campus architecture firm based in the College of Architecture, in 1992 under a grant from the McCormick Tribune Foundation. The cafeteria, lounges, and other common areas were renovated under the same grant

The typical residence hall room is approximately 11 feet by 16 feetMcCormick Tribune Campus Center

2003 Rem Koolhaas / OMA


Student Services

Administrative offices; student services; dining facilities; meeting rooms; auditorium

N/A The building is generally open during the day when school is in session. Campus visitors are welcome to enter the building and eat in any of the food service venues.

Construction from 1999 – 2003. Groundbreaking was March 9, 1999. Dedication on Sept. 30, 2003. Opened to public on Oct. 4, 2003.

The Campus Center includes two primary components: a 110,000-square-foot, one-story building to serve a wide variety of student activity functions; and a 530-foot-long stainless steel clad tube that sits directly above the building’s roof, designed to significantly muffle the noise and vibration generated by passing Chicago Transit Authority commuter trains.

Dining facilities, auditorium and meeting rooms, student organization offices, campus bookstore, coffee bar, post office, and 7-11 convenience store are all located in The McCormick Tribune Campus Center.

The building is uniquely connected to the Mies-designed Commons Building which serves as the campus’ dining hall.

Mecca Building(AKA Mecca

Ca. 1890 Unknown 3360 S. State St.,

Never used as a university

Non Extant 1952 N/A An apartment building considered to be the most modern of its time, it was erected in time to house long-term visitors to the 1892 world’s Columbian Exposition.


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apartments; Mecca Flats)

Chicago building Located on the north-west corner of 34th and State Sts. It was a large, U-shaped structure and each of its five stories contained 7-room

apartments with ornate balconies overlooking fountains in the landscaped courtyard.

During the Great Migration, apartments were divided and subdivided as more and more African Americans arrived in the area needing housing. Overcrowding and deferred maintenance resulted in severe deterioration of the building.

Purchased by IIT in 1941 as part of the campus development program S. R. Crown Hall now stands on the site.

Mechanical Engineering


Unknown N/A N/A Uncertain what building this name refers to; it may indicate either to an ARF building or an alternative name for Machinery Hall

Michigan Place 2004 David Hovey, Optima Inc.

Bounded by 31st St. Michigan Ave., 32nd St. and Indiana Ave.

Residential Residential; long-term lease by IIT to private management development company

N/A No Michigan Place Condominiums and Town Houses was a project initiated by IIT to create a residential community for faculty and staff adjacent to its Main Campus

Consists of two buildings, 120 units, located between Michigan Avenue and Indiana Avenue slightly south of Thirty-first Street

Both were designed by David Hovey, IIT alumnus and a member of the architecture faculty, in a manner typical of his embrace of late modernist simplicity of form. The roofs are flat; exterior walls of glass are separated by strips of anodized aluminum.

Military Science Building

1965 (acquired)


Academics Non-extant ???? N/A AKA Information Science Building The building was acquired in 1965 through a gift by Newton Farr, trustee and realtor Originally housed the university’s Information Science operations (i.e., computer

center which later moved to Stuart Building) Ca. 1971 – 1994 (?), it housed the Air Force and Navy ROTC programs

Minerals and Metals Research Building (& addition)

1943 (& 1958)





First Mies-designed building to be built on IIT campus and his first in American building; built for Armour Research Foundation (ARF)

Original south bays opened 11 January 1943 and housed a foundry. Another section, also designed by Mies, was added in 1958 to the north making this building also the last Mies-designed building to be built on the IIT campus.

Cited at 15th Anniversary Exhibition of the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1943-44) as an outstanding example of modern functional architecture.

Two window levels on the southern side bricked up. Decorative mullions were added later because columns were too thin.

To the south stands a test cell and transformer building by Mies. AKA: IITRI Materials Technology Building; Metals Research Building; IITRI

Minerals and Metals Research Building Building is located at the south end of campus, an area which has been referred to

variously as: IIT Research Institute complex; Biomedical Research Complex; University Technology Park (UTP)

Moffett Technical 1947 Schmidt, 6502 S. Academic; Research facility N/A Access to AKA Moffett Campus


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Center Garden, and Erickson

Archer Rd., Summit-Argo, Illinois

Administration and laboratory interior beyond the lobby area is restricted.

Built as the corporate headquarters and research laboratories for Corn Products International and named for Corn Products President George M. Moffett

Buildings were donated to IIT in 1988 as a gift of buildings by CPC International Inc.

Now houses IIT’s National Center for Food Safety and TechnologyNorth Hall 1959 Mittelbusher &

Tourtelot71 E. 32nd St, Chicago



All built between 1958 an 1959Ogden Field 1894 Unknown 3241 S.

Federal St., Chicago

Athletics Non-extant Closed in 1960

N/A A plot of land, originally surrounded by an iron fence, was set aside by J. Ogden Armour to become the recreation field for Armour Institute of Technology

The iron fence was donated to the World War II metals collection project The athletic field was nicknamed “The Bog” because of its rain soaked condition

with the slightest rainfall The site is now occupied by Hermann Hall which houses The Bog, the campus pub

and recreation centerPaul V. Galvin Library


1985 renovation done by ??????

35 W. 33rd Street Chicago

Library Main university library

N/A The building is generally open during the day when school is in session.






The library air conditioning tower (1962) stands to the south of the building.Perlstein Hall 1947 Ludwig Mies

van der Rohe10 W. 33rd St., Chicago

Academic Administrative offices; Academic

N/A Yes Dedicated as Metallurgy and Chemical Engineering Building on June 17, 1949. Incorporates a lecture room and an interior court, administration offices, and a foyer. Named Perlstein Hall and re-dedicated May 1964 for Harris Perlstein, IIT life

trustee Built to house the metallurgy and chemical engineering programs and university

administrative offices Executive and administrative offices located in the building as of 2010 include the

president’s office and several vice presidents, the undergraduate admission office. A fountain was installed on the south lawn in 1964 and dedicated as the Anne

Perlstein Memorial Court in memory of Harris’s spousePhi Kappa Sigma 1958 Karl M. Schmidt 3366 S. Residential Fraternity house N/A No Located in “The Quad,” a group of nine buildings built for the IIT fraternities 1958-


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Michigan Ave., Chicago

1960 Built as Phi Kappa Sigma (?) fraternity house Porch was added in June 1977.

Physics and Electrical Engineering Research Building





Built for the Institute of Gas Technology, as South building of what was the Institute of Gas Technology Complex.

Later used by Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology when IGT moved from the IIT campus.

Housed the Univac 1105 computer (not extant), and the first industrial nuclear reactor in U.S. (dismantled in 1977/78)

AKA: PER Building; IGT SouthPhysics Building 1888 Patten & Fisher East side of

Federal St. between 33rd

and 34th Sts., Chicago

Academic Non-extant 1968 N/A The classrooms of Physics Hall, AKA Physics Building, were originally part of Armour Flats

After some Armour Flats units were demolished prior to 1920, 63 units were left. Some of those remaining units (the northernmost portion) were renovated as the Physics Hall in 1937

The southern units were known as Chapin Hall and used to house the Psychology Department.

Pi Kappa Phi 1960 Mittelbusher & Tourtelot



Built as Pi Kappa Phi (?) fraternity house

Residence Dining Hall

1963 Mittelbusher & Tourtelot


Residential Residential N/A No Also called “South Dining Hall.” Prior to the construction of State Street Village (opened 2003), the Residence Hall


All built between 1958 an 1959.Rice Campus 1990 Solomon

Cordwell Buenz & Associates, Inc.

201 E, Loop Rd., Wheaton, Illinois


Academic and administration

N/A Yes ? Dedicated in 1990; first classes held in Jan. 1991 Officially, the Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Campus Houses the Louis W. Biegler Library Initially identified as “IIT West” during planning stages Prior to construction of the Rice Campus facility, IIT held classes in leased space at

College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn (1986-1990)Richard D. Irwin Inc. building



Research Non-extant ???? N/A The Irwin book publishing building was used by Armour Research Foundation’s to house its electrical engineering research laboratories and operations.

Riverbank Acoustical Laboratories

ca. 1918 Unknown 1512 S. Batavia Ave., (Ill. St. Rt. 31),

Research Research laboratory ? No longer owned/used by IIT.

N/A N/A Used by Armour Research Foundation’s physics division beginning in 1947 The facility contained a specially constructed reverberation chamber for research in

acoustical testing and measurement IITRI later operated the laboratory


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Geneva, Illinois

Robert F. Carr Memorial Chapel



Chapel Religious services and activities

N/A The building is generally not open unless it is in use for some program. Most of the interior of the one-room building can be seen through the windows on the east facade.

AKA: Memorial Chapel of St. Savior (or St. Saviour); The God Box The only liturgical structure designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe The chapel commemorates Robert F. Carr, president of Dearborn Chemical

Company Unique among the single-story pavilions on campus, the chapel has load-bearing

brick walls, not a steel frame The altar is a solid block of travertine

S. R. Crown Hall 1955 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe


Academic Academic N/A The building is generally open during the day when school is in session. Campus visitors are welcome to enter the building and walk through both upper and lower levels.

Widely regarded as Ludwig Mies van Der Rohe’s masterpiece, S. R. Crown Hall is one of the most architecturally significant buildings of the 20th Century Modernist movement

Designed to house the IIT Department of Architecture (now, the College of Architecture), the building accommodated the Institute of Design on it lower level when it was first occupied. (ID has since removed to another location.)

Crown Hall currently (2010) houses administrative and academic offices, classrooms, studio and lecture space, and a workshop and library for the IIT College of Architecture.

Ground breaking, Dec. 2, 1954; opened, ca. Sept. 1955; dedicated April 30, 1956 The building suffered a major fire on March 25, 2995 during construction Major renovation of Crown Hall occurred ca 1977-1978 (roof, exterior stairs,

lights); original windows were replaced in 1975 (to meet then current Chicago building codes). A/C installed 1986.

A major preservation effort occurred in 2004-2005, resulting in restoration of the exterior (included glass and south porch replacement), and renovation of the interior.

Granted Chicago Landmark status in 1997 Granted National Historic Landmark status in 2001 The 2005 restoration received the 2006 Richard H. Driehaus Foundation


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Preservation Award for Project of the Year, a 2006 Citation of Merit from AIA Chicago, and a 2005 Honor Award from Chicago Landmarks Commission

Named for Sol R. Crown, founder of material Service Corp., brother of Henry Crown, a former IIT trustee

Service Station 1961 Mittelbusher & Tourtelot


Maintenance Non-extant Ca. 2000

N/A Campus auto service station operated exclusively for IIT students and staff Station ceased to sell gasoline in 1993 to comply with state and federal underground

storage tank regulations, but continued to perform some routine maintenance services until 19??

Siegel Hall 1957 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe


Academic Academic N/A Yes Named for IIT Trustee David T. Siegel Dedicated April 1958 The site where Siegel Hall stands was designated on the original Mies campus plan

for the “Lewis Building,” the building intended to house the humanities and general sciences programs

Shows an example of the “Mies corner”Sigma Phi Epsilon 1961 Mittelbusher &



Built as Sigma Phi Epsilon (?) fraternity house

South Hall 1959 Mittelbusher & Tourtelot

71 E. 32nd St, Chicago



All built between 1958 an 1959State Street Village 2003 Helmut Jahn /

Murphy-Jahn Architects



1st of two new buildings opened in 2003 to be added to State St. campus since 1970 Architect Helmut Jahn is an IIT alumnus Dedicated on July 22, 2003 Complex of six separate dormitories buildings; the five-story units are conceived as

three pairs, each of which consists of two dormitory wings flanking a courtyard planted with birches and lined at the rear by a sound-insulating glass wall that rises to the full height of the building

Awarded the 2004 Institute Honor Award from the American Institute of ArchitectsStuart HallSee Harold Leonard Stuart Building

Temporary Building # 1

ca. 1946 Unknown Between Dearborn and State Sts. on 32nd Street,

Athletics Non-extant 1966 N/A Following World War II, a large temporary building (government surplus) was placed on stilts

Served as the university’s gymnasium until the summer of 1966.


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ChicagoTennis courts 1982 First Impressions 3100 block

of Wabash Ave., Chicago

Recreation Recreation N/A No ? Tennis courts by First Impressions, 1982.

Test Cell 1948 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe


Maintenance Non-extant 2010 N/A Built for Armour Research Foundation on the northwest corner of 35th and South Federal Streets

Initially used for research in the testing of firearms; later used for storage Razed 2010 for construction of Metra station at 35th St.

Transformer Vault 1946 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Maintenance No See entry on the Minerals and Metals Research Building

Triangle (fraternity house)

1959 Ekroth, Martorano & Ekroth



Built as Triangle (?) fraternity house

VanderCook College of Music




Originally; research; later, Academic

Private music college offices and classrooms


VanderCook College moved onto the IIT campus in 1996, into a building (Association of American Railroads [AAR] Building 1) designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

Vendome Theater 1887 Unknown 3143-3147 S. State St., Chicago

Maintenance Non Extant 1949 N/A In 1887, a Turner Hall (a German cultural and athletic center), was built at this location

After a 1915, Turner Hall was either renovated or razed In 1919, the building at this location became known as the Vendome Theater, a

movie theater catering to Black audiences Doubled as a jazz performance theater and became well-known for its resident

orchestra led by Erskine Tate Acquired by IIT in 1945 and used for storage Ca. 1960, used by Armour Research Foundation as its Industrial Chemistry Building AKA: Vendome Storage Building; South Side Turner’s Hall

Victorian Mansions used as fraternity houses

ca. late 1800’s

Various South Michigan Ave. between 32nd

& 33rd Sts.

Residential Non-extant ???? N/A Used by Armour Institute of Technology and IIT Greeks, ca. 1908 – ca. 1958 Fraternities known to have used these buildings included the following: for: Delta

Tau Delta, Phi Kappa Sigma; Rho Delta Rho; Beta Psi; Kappa Delta Tau; Theta Xi; Stray Greeks; Sigma Kappa Delta; Pi Kappa Phi; Sigma Alpha Mu; Omega Lambda; Triangle; Phi Pi Phi; Tau Delta Phi; Beta Ph

AKA: Fraternity Row Some buildings also housed NROTC students during WW II

Wabash Building Information not available

Unknown Research; Administration

Non-extant ???? N/A Originally a trucking firm’s office and loading dock Acquired in 1950 and used by Armour Research Foundation for office, laboratory


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and shipping space Building was later adapted for university use and housed the Institute of

Psychological Services General classrooms and a few specialized laboratories for the Physics and

Environmental Engineering were also located in the buildingWishnick Hall 1947 Ludwig Mies

van der Rohe3255 S. Dearborn St., Chicago

Academic Academic N/A Yes Dedicated as the Chemistry Building on October 17, 1949. Renamed in 1966 for Robert I. Wishnick, IIT alumnus and trustee It also houses the Center for Excellence in Polymer Science and Engineering

Zeta Pi Omega Information not available

Unknown 33?? S. Wabash Ave., Chicago

Residential Sorority house N/A No Located in “The Quad,” a group of nine buildings built for the IIT fraternities 1958-1960

Built as ???????? fraternity house One of IIT’s three sorority communities

Information for this document was gathered from various sources in the IIT Archives, primarily by Catherine Bruck, University Archivist. Corrections, edits, and additions should be sent to [email protected].


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