Box 2

Scope and Contents Materials discussing and illustrating The Mecca (aka Mecca Flats), a large apartment complex at 34th and Dearborn, built in the early 1890s and demolished in early 1952 to make way for Crown Hall. Materials include: 1) Clipped pages of an article about the Mecca from Harper's Magazine of December 1950, called "The Strangest Place in Chicago" and documenting the complex in its final months of existence; 2) A photocopied article from Life Magazine under date November 19, 1951, "The Mecca:...

Scope and Contents 15 sheets of floor plans, color drawings, and text descriptions of Michigan Place, a proposed townhouse/condominium development on land owned by IIT between 31st and 32nd streets and between Michigan and Indiana avenues. The development was to have been completed by Shorebank Development Corp. and Optima, Inc. Also present is a copy of a memo from John P. Collins (IIT VP for Buusiness and Finance) to all IIT faculty and staff, inviting them to buy units in the development. Also present is a...

Scope and Contents Clippings from IIT publications documenting miscellaneous IIT buildings and facilities (laboratories, athletic fields, tunnels, classrooms, etc.). These items include: 1) Victory Hall on 34th Street (commonly known as the "bug house") documented in a clipping from the November 3, 1942 issue of Technology News; 2) Clipped pages from the Bulletin of 1946-47 with descriptions of the various campus laboratories; 3) Clipped pages from the 1958-60 Graduate Bulletin, describing the various...

Scope and Contents Miscellaneous materials related to IIT buildings including, but not necessarily limited to, the following: Folder 1) 35mm color slides (34 total), probably all dating 1998. (Dates July 15, Aug. 12, and Sept. 19 appear on some slide mounts; a few are not dated). The images show interior shots of dorm rooms, hallways, and stairwells in an unidentified dormitory building, perhaps showing renovations or repairs (several slides showing details of damage like water leaks and peeling paint were...

Scope and Contents Pages clipped from Armour Institute and IIT publications, documenting (with text and photographs) Ogden Field, an athletic field immediately north of 33rd Street (between Dearborn and Federal Streets) that was cleared for that use in the summer of 1904 and remained dedicated to that purpose until the early 1960s when construction began on Hermann Hall. Items include: 1) Four clipped pages from the 1904 Integral, which discuss the gift of an athletic field by J. Ogden Armour. 2) One clipped...