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Tacoma Building (Chicago)

1889 establishments in Illinois1929 disestablishments in IllinoisBuildings and structures completed in 1889Buildings and structures demolished in 1929Chicago school architecture in Illinois
Projects by Holabird & RootSkyscraper office buildings in Chicago
"My country, 'tis of thee!" or, The United States of America; past, present and future. A philosophic view of American history and of our present status, to be seen in the Columbian exhibition (1892) (14598156307)

The Tacoma Building is an early skyscraper in Chicago. Completed in 1889, it was the first major building designed by the architectural firm Holabird & Roche. The Tacoma Building was demolished in 1929 to be replaced by One North LaSalle.A pioneering building of the Chicago School, it uses a framework of iron and steel constructed by George A. Fuller with, for the first time, all its members fixed together by rivets. While internally still supported by load-bearing walls, the two facades towards LaSalle Street and Madison Street are true curtain walls. With this, Holabird & Roche's structure went beyond William LeBaron Jenney's solution for his Home Insurance Building. After investigating the lost Chicago landmark, the National Association of Building Owners and Managers diagnosed the cause of its obsolescence to be the building's inefficient layout.

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Tacoma Building (Chicago)
West Madison Street, Chicago Loop

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West Madison Street 11
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