Michael Reese Hospital
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Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center was a hospital in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Founded in 1881, Michael Reese Hospital was a major research and teaching
2008 photograph of Michael Reese Hospital underpass entrance view from 29th Street.
Walter Gropius
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Walter Adolph Georg Gropius was a German-American architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture. He was a founder of Ba
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…preservation efforts were made, both buildings were eventually demolished. A series of newer buildings were completed after a 1946 plan created by Walter Gropius, the first director of the Bauhaus in Germany. These buildings, built from 1946 to 1959, were designed by Chicago firms based in part on the Gropius…
Portrait by Louis Held, c. 1919
Gropius's Monument to the March Dead (1921) was dedicated to the memory of nine workers who died in Weimar resisting the Kapp Putsch.
Modern reconstruction of Gropius's house in Dessau which was destroyed during World War II.
Gropius with Harry Seidler in Sydney, Australia, in 1954