Chicago’s Wrigley Building, constructed in 1921, is the “whited sepulcher” of Michigan Avenue, gleaming in terra cotta like the rows of teeth ostensibly cleansed by Wrigley’s Chewing Gum, the company that built the Beaux-Arts edifice. But its extravagant looks are only part of the story. Unfrozen hosts Robert Sharoff and William Zbaren, who wrote and photographed the new book from Rizzoli, The Wrigley Building: The Making of an Icon, to hear the rest.
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Intro / Outro:
“24 Hour Limes,” by The Cooper Vane
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Discussed:
- Graham, Anderson, Probst & White
- Charles Beersman
- Julia Morgan
- Arts Club of Chicago
- Joe Mansueto
- Joe and Rika Mansueto Library, Helmut Jahn, 2011
- John Vinci
- Phillip Wrigley
- William Hale “Big Bill” Thompson
- Girilda Tower, Seville
- Chateau Chambord, Loire Valley, France
- New York Municipal Building, Stanford White, 1914
- The Carter Family
- Tribune Tower, Howells and Hood, 1925
- London Guarantee Building, Alfred Alschuler, 1923
- 333 North Michigan Avenue, Holabird & Roche, 1928
- Belden-Stratford Hotel, Meyer Fridstein, 1923
- Waldor-Astoria Chicago, Lucien Lagrange, 2009
- Chicago Fire Stadium
- Stanley Tigerman
- Studio Blue, Cheryl Towler Weese
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