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	Monadnock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A monadnock or inselberg is an isolated hill, knob, ridge, or small mountain that rises abruptly from a gently sloping or virtually level surrounding plain.
		Monadnock is an originally Native American term for an isolated hill or a lone mountain that has risen above the surrounding area, typically by surviving erosion.
		USS Monadnock (1883) was a United States Navy ironclad warship.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Monadnock (252 words)

	MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Monadnock Building, Chicago (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		One of the early skyscrapers of the Chicago School, the 16-story Monadnock Building, left, was designed by the architectural firm of Burnham and Root in the 1880s and completed in the 1890s.
		Although its unornamented exterior is sleekly modern in appearance, the Monadnock did not take advantage of the latest structural technology.
		Instead of steel structural supports, which enabled builders to use thinner exterior walls for ever higher buildings, the brick walls of the Monadnock bear the entire weight of the building, and the walls are over 6 ft (2 m) thick at their base.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461547741/Monadnock_Building_Chicago.html (103 words)

	Skyscraper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The word skyscraper was first applied to such buildings in the late 19th century, reflecting public amazement at the tall buildings being built in New York City.
		Buildings up to about four stories can be supported by their walls, while skyscrapers are larger buildings that must be supported by a skeletal frame.
		The first building to fit the engineering definition meanwhile was the then largest hotel in the world, the Grand Midland Hotel, now known as St Pancras Chambers in London completed in 1873 and 269 feet (82 metres) tall.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Skyscraper (1240 words)

	VLN: S.F. Architecture 1906-1908
		Interrupted by the earthquake and rebuilt afterward, the building was renovated in 1986-88.
		The Monadnock Building was under construction prior to the 1906 Earthquake and Fire.
		The first building for the first department of architecture west of the Rockies, it was called the Ark (Howard was Noah) and was built as a temporary structure, hence its simple brown-shingled form and residential scale.
	www.verlang.com /sfbay0004ref_20thc_001.html (3485 words)

	modnaknok (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The Monadnock building is often cited as the prototype for the Chicago School -- a forerunner of the steel skyscraper which would ultimately replace masonry load-bearing construction such as that used in the Monadnock.
		The building would be a slab, proportioned on a 3 to 1 ratio: 200 feet long, 200 feet high, 66 feet wide, with a center corridor and a row of narrow offices on each side.
		Some considered the original building to be two buildings (Monadnock and Kearsage) and the final building (a steel-framed addition was added south of the first building in 1893 by the firm Holabird and Roche) to be two more (Wachusett and Katahdin).
	orion.it.luc.edu /~jgolden/monadnock.html (1524 words)

	Monadnock Building - 685 Market Street, San Francisco
		The Monadnock Building, located at 685 Market Street in downtown San Francisco, was under construction prior to the 1906 Earthquake and Fire.
		She was, by legend, a mysterious and powerful figure behind the scenes during the Civil War years of San Franciso, as she championed the cause of fls all across the nation.
		It's not actually known how the building came to receive that name - though there's a mountain in New Hampshire and an unrelated building in Chicago also using that name - but it may be because of the war ship Monadnock which was home-based to San Francisco Bay during the building's early years.
	www.zpub.com /sf/places/685Market.html (884 words)

	Railway Exchange, Orchestra Hall, Straus Building
		The building housed Daniel H. Burnham’s offices, where the 1909 Plan of Chicago was worked out and a decade of buildings were planned.
		The top of the Straus Building is a stepped pyramid and heraldic sculpture that extended its total height to 475 feet with the rest of the structure being a traditional office building.
		The nine-story tower was a separate section of the building and was accessed by its own elevators that began on the twenty-first floor.
	members.aol.com /arch773/railorch.htm (424 words)

	monadnock -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Monadnocks are left as erosional remnants because of their more resistant rock composition; commonly they consist of quartzite or less jointed massive volcanic rocks.
		Structurally it is a monadnock, or erosional remnant, rising above the 1,000-foot (305-metre) level of the surrounding highlands, which are an extension of the...
		Root was born in Lumpkin, Ga. Root and Burnham's Chicago office buildings include the Montauk Building (1882), the Rookery (1884–86), and the Monadnock Building (1889–91).
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9053304 (599 words)

	The Monadnock Building
		The Monadnock Building is located at 53 West Jackson Boulevard, the same street as the
		It took from 1889 until 1891 to build the Monadnock.
		is important because the building is part load-bearing wall construction, and part modern skyscraper with a steel skeleton.
	library.thinkquest.org /J002846/b_monadnock.htm (143 words)

	Photo Tour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Building 101 was designed by Frederick H. Meyer (1876-1961), who had designed many post-earthquake buildings in the Bay Area, including the Monadnock Building and the Humboldt Bank building.
		Located at the northeast corner of 20th and Illinois Streets, the most prominent location within the shipyard area, Building 101 served as the local headquarters of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, the parent of the Bethlehem Shipyards.
		Building 101 represents San Francisco's late empire period, when the city was playing an important role on the world stage.
	www.pier70sf.org /phototour/phototour_101.html (175 words)

	Issues: Perspectives (December 2002): New Light on Old Buildings
		The problem of admitting natural light to such a building becomes clear as one approaches the Jackson Street entrance on the older, north side of the building.
		For visitors, the Monadnock building raises questions that have less to do with aesthetics and more to do with skyscrapers as places of work.
		But the lighting in the Monadnock encourages them to imagine what it might have been like in an office building with open windows and an entirely different set of street noises and smells.
	www.historians.org /perspectives/issues/2002/0212/0212anm4.cfm (971 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Our tour began at the Monadnock Building, a somber, chocolate-colored structure near the south end of the Loop.
		By the time it was built, in 1891, steel-frame construction was already being used to achieve height without the chunkiness of the early tall buildings made out of stone and brick.
		This gives the moody hulk a sculptural shape and a sort of Egyptoid cast, which is appropriate when you consider that the principle of its construction is that of a pyramid.
	slate.msn.com /features/ChicagoArchitecture/CStop_02.htm (195 words)

	Monadnock Review
		Frank Pannier, an abstract painter, has created a "portrait" of the Monadnock Building by translating the forms, colors, and textures of the building into a series of canvases.
		Pannier chose the Monadnock for its historical significance.
		These two towers illustrate the change in building technology that was the focal point of the Chicago School of architecture.
	homepage.mac.com /pannier/monadnock-paintings/monadnockr1.html (347 words)

	Illinois Art Council Report
		In the paintings to the south half of the Monadnock building I incorporated "straight" horizontal, vertical, or diagonal bands of heavily articulated wood block textures in a fantasy reference to the steel framed side of the building's decorative cornice line.
		The wood block texture was first used in the paintings to Adler and Sullivan for much the same reason with the added reference to Sullivan's "organic" cast-iron work, as in the Carson Pirie Scott Store.
		In many of the paintings to Adler and Sullivan,, and the Monadnock the wood block textures were balanced (or, put into contrast with) areas of painted texture which varied in severity of execution from light to rough relief.
	homepage.mac.com /pannier/monadnock-paintings/monadnockw2.html (143 words)

	Monadnock Building - Burnham and Root - Great Buildings Online
		Burnham and Root reduced the building to an elemental statement.
		Finished after a hiatus of several years, the building was stipulated by the Brooks brothers to be of traditional bearing wall construction, with an unprecedented height of sixteen stories.
		In spite of Root's artistic achievement in making the tall building a unified, coherent statement, it was structurally traditional, employing cast iron and wrought iron framing only for window spandrels and the internal frame.
	www.greatbuildings.com /buildings/Monadnock_Building.html (264 words)

	Chicago History
		Among the residential buildings north of this canyon, the most notable are Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's steel-and-glass towers at 860-880 North Lake Shore Drive (1949-51), which architectural historian G. Kidder Smith calls the "first buildings to excite the American scene" by this expatriate master of European modernism.
		The gridlike organization of the building was nakedly expressed through the intersecting piers and horizontal spandrels of the walls; ornamentation was minimal (and when present, as in Adler and Sullivan's buildings, was likely to take a boldly abstracted form); windows were large and plentiful.
		Restoration of several important buildings, including Frank Lloyd Wright's home and studio in Oak Park--as well as the Chicago Theater, the Monadnock Building, and the Rookery downtown--added to the trend toward incorporating historical references, which was a notable feature of the building boom of the 1980s.
	www.tc.umn.edu /%7Epeikx001/chichist.htm (1974 words)

	The Idea of Monadnock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Elsewhere in reality, the Monadnock Building is a fine example of late nineteenth-century architecture right before the dawn of the skyscaper.
		The Monadnock Building was designed by John Root, whose partner Daniel Burnham created The Flatiron Building in New York City (one of your editor's favorite structures).
		It is Rand's description of that development, specifically her use of the phrase joy and reason and meaning, which inspired the founding of the Monadnock Review.
	www.monadnock.net /whatis (272 words)

	Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea, Inc. - Monadnock - 53 W. Jackson
		The Monadnock store is located in Chicago’s historic Monadnock building located at 53 West Jackson in downtown Chicago.
		The North half of the building was built in 1889-91, the south half was built in 1891-93.
		The north part, famed for its lack of ornamentation, is the last skyscraper to employ a wall-bearing building method.
	www.intelligentsiacoffee.com /retail/monadnock (192 words)

	Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Burnham’s Monadnock Building in Chicago, 1889-92, marks the turning point in the evolution of a functional, rational approach to the skyscraper.
		The Monadnock is a steel frame structure clad in brick where the brick reveals the steel structure of the building on the exterior.
		Cret likened the functional ordering of a building’s design to the fabrication processes of a factory where each stage is in the right relation to those preceding and succeeding it.
	www.aiasnatl.org /critfifty/article/r_article_24.htm (2247 words)

	Gapers Block, Chicago, IL - Fuel: Chicago Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		I like the Monadnock Building, which is - I think - the last skyscraper (as that term was understood circa 1890) built without the use of structural steel, giving it that sort of fortressy lock in the lower floors.
		It's interesting that the sculpture on top of the building was simplistically designed because at the time nobody dreamed that anybody would erect a building tall enough that somebody would actually able to see any facial feature details in the Ceres (sp?) agricultural figure.
		My least favorite building in Chicago may be that ugly red building in the loop that was plopped on top of an older building, in an example of how NOT to integrate new and old architecture.
	www.gapersblock.com /fuel/archives/chicago_architecture (2801 words)

	CTA Loop
		Further south on the same block is the Manhattan Building, built in 1891 by William LeBaron Jenny and considered one of the earliest skyscrapers to be supported entirely by a steel frame.
		Although the now-demolished Home Insurance Building by the same architect is widely acknowledged to be the world's first skyscraper, the Manhattan was the first to fully exploit steel framing and wind bracing and is now one of the oldest skyscrapers remaining.
		This building stands as one of the world's most important works of early modern architecture, the cumulation of Sullivan's quest to find a distinctly American form of architecture for large commercial buildings.
	world.nycsubway.org /us/chicago/loop/cta-loop-library.html (3350 words)

	Architecture in Chicago, Illinois
		Photography: The recent additions take away from the original building in my opinion, but the front entrance is still a good choice for photos.
		Visiting Tips: The building is public and is open during the day on weekdays and weekends.
		Photography: The building is so huge, you have to be across the river to get a good shot of the whole.
	mintaka.sdsu.edu /faculty/erics/web/arcchicago.html (1168 words)

	Daniel H. Burnham, Joseph Ellicott, & The Ellicott Square Building (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Monadnock Building (1891); and the 20-story Masonic Temple Building (1892).
		The height of the building is 144 feet, has an area of 500,000 square feet, with a steel and concrete foundation.
		The uniqueness of this building continues with each office containing a marble wash bowl, individual coat closets, incandescent electric lights, steam radiators, and a telephone system that could communicate with any other office in the building.
	ah.bfn.org /a/main/295/brooks.html (936 words)

	685 Market Street
		Although the conclusions that we've drawn from this picture are purely based on circumstantial evidence, we, the property management of the building, feel that something has to be done about the unsightly accumulation of cigarette butts in the area in front of the toy store- and we think we know who's to blame.
		As the building management walks around downtown San Francisco we tend to size other buildings up, and one thing that was definately causing us some "building envy" was the lack of some nice color around the edges of our building.
		The CORY (Commercial Recycler of the Year) Awards recognized the Monadnock Building as one of the top commercial recyclers in San Francisco in the small building category.
	monadnocksf.blogspot.com (2095 words)

	Monadnock Construction, Inc. / Completed Projects
		Monadnock's broad experience includes projects ranging in size from under $5,000,000 to over $50,000,000.
		Buildings 1 & 2, new 16-story buildings for Memorial Sloan Ketttering Hospital & Weill Cornell Medical Center, were the first buildings of a new planned community.
		New 93 unit mid-rise apartment building for the elderly.
	www.moncon.com /completed.html (558 words)

	Monadnock Building, Chicago
		At one time the building was divided into 4 sections, each named after a different New England mountain: Monadnock, Kearsarge, Katahdin, and Wachusett.
		The Monadnock was the first high-rise building to use portal bracing, although this was not the more distinctive arched portal bracing used in the neighboring Old Colony Building.
		Early drawings show this as a 12-story building, but a threatened change in zoning laws prompted the developers to get a permit for 16 floors while still possible.
	www.emporis.com /en/wm/bu/?id=116830 (308 words)

	Contact
		Beem Patent Law Firm maintains offices in the historic Monadnock Building, across the street from the federal courthouse, in downtown Chicago.
		The Monadnock Building was designed by Chicago architects Daniel Burnham and John Root.
		In the #1 national bestseller, Devil in the White City, Erik Larsen describes Burnham's designs for the Monadnock Building and the 1893 world's fair.
	www.beemlaw.com /contact.htm (248 words)

	Monadnock in Reality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		In geology, a monadnock is "a single remnant of a former highland, which rises as an isolated rock mass above a plain" (after Mount Monadnock, a 3,165-foot mountain in present-day Cheshire County, New Hampshire).
		The word 'monadnock' derives from the Western Abenaki 'menonadenak' meaning "smooth mountain", although the term may also carry connotations from 'menadenika' meaning "isolated mountain".
		Elsewhere in reality, the Monadnock Building is a fine example of late nineteenth-century architecture right before the dawn of the skyscaper (at one time it was the tallest building in Chicago).
	www.monadnock.net /whatis/reality.html (151 words)

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