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The Rookery

The Wedding Website of Bridget McKay and Matt Kaczkowski
1885 - Daniel Burnham and John Root are commissioned to design a building for the Central Safety Deposit Company to be located at the southeast corner of LaSalle and Adams Streets. 1888 - The Rookery is completed, and at eleven stories high, becomes one of the grandest buildings in the world at the time. Burnham & Root move their offices to The Rookery. Their former offices are now known as The Burnham Library. 1905 - Frank Lloyd Wright updates the light court with a more modern appearance, encasing iron columns in gilded white marble and adding bronze chandeliers with prismatic glass. 1931 - William Drummond infuses Art Deco flair into The Rookery, dividing the two-story entrance lobby into separate floors and replacing Wright’s open-geometric elevator cages with solid bronze doors etched with birds. 1970 - The Rookery is placed on The National Register of Historic Places. 1972 - The City of Chicago designates The Rookery as an official Chicago Landmark.
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