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 • Manhattan Project, 1942
• School of Nursing for St. Luke's Hospital, 1948
• Morton Clinic Labratory, 1948
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Bulley and Andrews Through The Years:
1940-1949
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Manhattan Project, 1942
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Late in 1941, Bulley & Andrews was commissioned to construct facilities, which would later make history. The Atomic Energy Commissions' "Manhattan Project" laboratory, located beneath the west stands of Stagg Field at The University of Chicago, was built in total secrecy.
Allan Bulley, Sr. later recalled how difficult it was to build the famous reactor in the old squash court, how they struggled to put up the reactor without having the faintest idea what it was or what they were doing and with no one to talk to about it except a voice in Washington on the other end of a secret telephone line.
It wasn't until the end of World War II that Allan Sr. realized with what Bulley & Andrews had been involved. "The most we even speculated was that it had to do with poison gas," he said. But it was here that the world's first man-made self-sustaining chain reaction was completed leading to the development of the atomic bomb.
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School of Nursing for St. Luke's Hospital, 1948
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The architecture firm of Schmidt, Garden & Erickson designed the new School of Nursing for St. Luke's Hospital. The building was constructed by Bulley & Andrews just south of the existing hospital on Indiana Avenue in Chicago. The Laura & Charles Schwepe Memorial was dedicated during the construction with a ceremony at the front of the structure. On-lookers included many of the hospital's nurses and staff.
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Morton Clinic Labratory, 1948
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Bulley & Andrews continued to construct adjacent buildings for St. Luke's Hospital as well as extensive remodeling of the interiors. In 1948 the Morton Clinic Laboratory was built. A series of photos illustrates the methods used to place concrete for the building's structure.
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