Chicago Water Tower
Tower · Chicago, Illinois
A castellated limestone tower on Michigan Avenue, built in 1869 to hide a 138-foot standpipe that steadied the pressure in the city's water mains, and one of very few structures in the burnt district left standing after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Oscar Wilde called it a castellated monstrosity with pepper boxes stuck all over it. Chicago kept it anyway.
806 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, 60611, United States
Exterior visible at all hours, free. The City Gallery inside keeps daytime hours and is free to enter.
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