The Union Station District Fire, Chicago, Illinois: March 15, 1922 (Classic Reprint) - Paperback

• Release Date   12/4/2017
• ISBN-13   9781332080571 | 978-1-332-08057-1
• ISBN   133208057X | 1-332-08057-X
• Format   Paperback
• Excerpt from The Union Station District Fire, Chicago, Illinois: March 15, 1922This building is a skeleton steel frame structure, sixteen stories high, with two basements, covering an area of approximately square feet. Walls are brick curtains. faced and trimmed with glazed white terra-cotta. Floors for most part are 1 wood surface on a cinder concrete grouting car ried on flat hollow tile arches. approximately every third floor is 3' 8 thick with the cinder grouting carried on tile laid on edge supported On flat hollow tile arches. Roof is tar and gravel. On flat tile arches. All structural steel members tile protected, except columns are concrete covered with outside facing of hollow tile. Stairs and elevators enclosed in tile and brick shafts, wiredglass paneled metal doors to floors except Meeker type on, freight elevator. partitions mainly of 3 and 4 hollow tile. An exterior brick court with wired glass metal frame _windows south, extends from second floor up. Plain glass windows in wooden frames in exterior walls face streets north and east. Wired glass windows in metal frames face Elevated Rail way structure on the south and lower brick buildings across alley at the west.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully. any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.