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| | Holabird & Root |
 | | This longstanding firm was founded in 1881 by William Holabird (1854-1923) and Martin Roche (1855-1927), who met while working in the architectural office of William Le Baron Jenney, the so-called "father of the skyscraper." A native of New York, Holabird had come to Chicago in 1875. |
 | | Roche was raised in Chicago and was educated at the Armour Institute of Technology (now IIT). |
 | | The firm was influential in the development of early skyscrapers, especially the architectural movement known as the "Chicago School." Among its early designs were the Tacoma Building (1889; demolished), Chicago, Marquette, Old Colony, Pontiac (in the Printing House Row District), and the Republic (1904; demolished) buildings. |
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