This post is a reference to the book written by Carl Condit entitled The Chicago School of Architecture. The book was published 50 years ago this year. Celebrating that anniversary, plus the centennial of Condit’s birth today — he was born in Cincinnati on 29 September 1914 — I am publishing this blog.

I studied the book before a Christmas visit to Chicago almost two years ago, and decided then that I wanted to know how many of the buildings he wrote about in 1964 were still standing today. At first I thought I might make a quick count, but my curiousity evolved into an elaborate project. What I publish here is a thorough, detailed study about which of the buildings my father wrote about are still standing, and how many have been demolished since he wrote.

In January, 2019, I revised and improved the original post from 2014. Read the full study here:

Fate of Buildings from Condit’s Chicago School of Architecture

Richard Condit
Chicago, Illinois