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The buildings and architecture of Chicago reflect the city's history and multicultural heritage, featuring prominent buildings in a variety of styles. Most structures downtown were destroyed by the Great Chicago Fire in 1871 (an exception being the Water Tower ).
The building was designed by Rudolf Steiner and named after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. [1] It includes two performance halls (1500 seats), gallery and lecture spaces, a library, a bookstore, and administrative spaces for the Anthroposophical Society ; neighboring buildings house the society's research and educational facilities.
The house where Rudolf Steiner was born, in present-day Croatia. Steiner's father, Johann(es) Steiner (1829–1910), left a position as a gamekeeper [29] in the service of Count Hoyos in Geras, northeast Lower Austria to marry one of the Hoyos family's housemaids, Franziska Blie (1834 Horn – 1918, Horn), a marriage for which the Count had refused his permission.
Chicago Beach Apartments, Chicago, 1929; Chicago Bee Building, South Side, Chicago, 1926; Chicago Board of Trade Building, Chicago, 1930; Chicago Evening Post Building, West Loop–LaSalle Street Historic District, Chicago, 1928; Chicago Federation of Musicians Building, West Loop–LaSalle Street Historic District, Chicago, 1933, 1949
Tiger Stadium, popularly known as "Death Valley", is an outdoor stadium located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on the campus of Louisiana State University. It is the home stadium of the LSU Tigers football team. Prior to 1924, LSU played its home games at State Field, which was located on the old LSU campus in Downtown Baton Rouge.
Rudolf Steiner designs second Goetheanum after first was destroyed by fire in 1922. Work commences 1924 and is completed in 1928. Michel de Klerk dies. 1924. Germany adopts the Dawes plan. Architects more inclined to produce low-cost housing than pursue utopian ideas about glass. Hugo Häring designs a farm complex. It uses expressive pitched ...
The tower is not the only Death Valley icon that has been damaged recently. A fire last month destroyed a historic wooden wagon at a privately owned resort in the park.
Steinway Hall (1896 – 1970) was an 11-story office building, and ground-floor theater (later cinema), located at 64 East Van Buren Street in Chicago, Illinois. [1] The theater had at least 14 names over the years, opening in 1896 as the Steinway Music Hall, and closing in the late 1960s as Capri Cinema.