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 • Hertz, 1923
• The Riding Club of Chicago, 1924
• ILG Electric Ventilating Co., 1927
• Northern Trust, 1927
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Bulley and Andrews Through The Years:
1920-1929
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Hertz, 1923
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1923Bulley & Andrews constructed several projects for John Hertz, the owner of Yellow Cab and Motorcoach garages. This garage building was built near Austin and Grand Streets in Chicago. Huge steel trusses were hoisted into place using equipment powered by steam boilers on site. These same steam engines also ran the concrete mixers. Note the steel wheeled concrete buggies and wheelbarrows used to transport materials.
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The Riding Club of Chicago, 1924
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The Riding Club of Chicago was a dream of the wealthy, a place to stable their fine horses and access the bridle paths up and down the lakeshore. Andrew Rebori of Rebori Wentworth & Dewey Inc. designed the elegant equestrian sports arena built at McClurg, Ontario and Erie Streets in Chicago. The building, 305 ft. long by 218 ft. wide, became one of the largest riding rings in the world and included an observation hall with seating for 3000, stables for 452 horses, a blacksmith shop and a large hall for entertainment. The club had a system of natural ventilation ducts, scientifically proportioned, and a regulator device to meet the varying temperature requirements to assure clean and sanitary stables.
John Hertz, Robert McCormick, John Borden, Joseph Ryerson, Martin Quigley and William Wrigley, Jr. all paid the $1,000 life membership readily. Unfortunately, The Riding Club’s popularity was short-lived. When construction of the Outer Drive began in the mid 1930’s the bridal paths along the Lake were destroyed. With the bridal paths gone, the interest in the Club waned and it became a “white elephant”. During the 1940's it became an ice skating rink, followed by bowling alleys and bars. CBS purchased the building in 1953 and completed an adaptive re-use of the facility converting it into television studios.
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ILG Electric Ventilating Company, 1927
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The ILG Electric Ventilating Company contracted with Bulley & Andrews to construct a new building at 2850 Pulaski Avenue in Chicago in 1927. This industrial building, designed by Architect Alfred S. Alschuler, won a variety of awards and has been featured in several publications.
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Northern Trust, 1927
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The two-story addition to the 1906 Northern Trust Bank at 50 S. LaSalle was Bulley & Andrews’ first notable financial institution project of record. An article in Engineering News Record's March 27, 1930 issue stated that the architect C.S. Frost & C.C. Henderson and general contractor Bulley & Andrews accomplished building two stories on top of a steel-framed structure that was not originally designed to carry the additional load. “The alterations . . . involved many interesting problems and necessitated important and difficult structural changes.” Among the combination of means used to provide additional support were brackets to reduce the unbraced 18’ to 28’ length of the columns as well as the splicing of existing columns. Instead of cinder concrete floor fill weighing 90 lb per cubic foot, a 50 lb lightweight concrete was used to reduce the dead load.
Al Simmons, Superintendent, and Barrett Sleeman, Assistant Superintendent, oversaw the challenging construction of the $1,402,914 two-story addition. Original City of Chicago approved building permit plans are still in safekeeping at The Northern Trust’s offices today.
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