Modernizing Modernism:

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Modernizing Modernism 

• Challenges with Preserving Post-War Buildings
• Carol J. Dyson, AIA
• National Historic Tax Credit Conference
  2008September 24-26, 2008, Chicago

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Modernizing Modernism 

• Carol J. Dyson, AIA
• Senior Preservation Architect
• Illinois Historic Preservation Agency
• Springfield, IL 62712
• carol.dyson_at_illinois.gov

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Its not your Fathers Building any more
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New Materialsand Systems

• Glass
• Curtain Walls
• Concrete
• Metals

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New Building Typologies
Lincoln Square, Urbana, Victor Gruen 1964
North Eighth Street Plaza, Pekin, 1951-1959
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New Interiors Open Plans Office Partitions
Inland Steel, Chicago
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New Assemblies Windows - (and new research)
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or Floors

• We had an expert restore all the original shag
  carpeting. New Yorker cartoon July 21, 2008

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Illinois Case Studies

• Raymond Hilliard Housing, Chicago 1963
• Promontory Apartments
• 860-880 North Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, 1951
• Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago 1948-
• Pacesetter Gardens, Riverdale, 1960
• Lincoln Square Shopping Mall, Urbana, 1964
  Pacesetter Housing, Riverdale
• Block and Kuhl storefront, Danville, 1948

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Hilliard Housing, Chicago
Raymond M. Hilliard Center, Chicago, 1966 (by
Bertrand Goldberg)
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Hilliard Housing, Chicago
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Hilliard Housing, Chicago
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Hilliard Housing Grand Opening, Holstein, HUD,
CHA, IDA, IHPA, Tenants, Press
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Promontory Apartments
Promontory Apartments, Chicago, 1949 (Mies van
der Rohe)
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860-880 North Lake Shore Drive - Condos
860-880 North Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, (by Mies
van der Rohe), completed 1951
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860-880 N. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago
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Plans
860-880 N. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago
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Illinois Institute of Technology Mies van der
Rohe
Crown Hall, 1950-1956
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IIT CRB
Chemistry Research Building at IIT, 1959-60 (by
Schmidt, Garden and Erikson)
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Pacesetter, Riverdale

• Pacesetter Gardens Housing Complex, Riverdale,
  1960 (by Harry J. Quinn)
• Part of the Illinois Campaign for Affordable
  Housing

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Pacesetter Housing, Riverdale
Pacesetter Housing, Riverdale, 1960
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Lincoln Square Shopping Mall, Urbana, 1964 (by
Victor Gruen)
Lincoln Square Shopping Mall, Urbana, 1964 (by
Victor Gruen)
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Lincoln Square
Lincoln Square Shopping Mall, Urbana, 1964 (by
Victor Gruen)
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Lincoln Square, an urban village
Lincoln Square Shopping Mall, 1964, Urbana,
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Modernized Main Street (by Raymond Loewy)
Block and Kuhl storefront renovation, Danville,
1948 (by Raymond Loewy)
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Block and Kuhl storefront, Danville, 1948 (by
Raymond Loewy)
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Lincoln Square Shopping Mall, Urbana, 1964 (by
Victor Gruen)
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Mid-Century Resources

• Illinois-history.gov/ps/midcentury.htm

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Mid-Century Storefronts Components Guide

• Illinois-history.gov/ps/midcentury.htm

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Thank You !

• and now on to Allen and Inland Steel

Carol J. Dyson, AIA Senior Preservation Architect
Illinois Historic Preservation
Agency Springfield, IL 62712 carol.dyson_at_illinois.
gov