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Prentice Women’s Hospital
333 E. Superior St., Chicago
Bertrand Goldberg, architect, 1974-1975
Significance: Of all of modernist architect Bertrand Goldberg’s
numerous hospital commissions, Prentice Women’s Hospital is the best known.
Completed in 1975, it exhibits Goldberg’s noted use of circular forms for
four linked towers atop a five-story glass-and-steel podium. “Goldberg’s
architecture is highly sculptural,” said Heather Barrow, formally of the Art
Institute of Chicago. “His work is meant to be seen in the round, from more
than one direction.” (Bertrand Goldberg Collection, the Art Institute of
Chicago, 2007) .
Current Condition and/or Status: Northwestern Memorial
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new Prentice facility a block west, at 250 E. Superior, in October, 2007.
Northwestern Memorial Hospital still owns the building and the Stone
Institute of Psychiatry occupies the base, but the clover shaped towers are
now vacant.
Potential Threat: In a few years, ownership of the building is scheduled to
revert to Northwestern University which plans to develop the site for a new
research facility for the Feinberg School of Medicine. Reuse of the building
will be considered, a NWU spokesman told the Chicago Tribune, (April 15,
08), but “we don’t have any decision or inclination one way or the other.”
Demolition is an option.
What You Can Do: Contact 42nd Ward Alderman Brendan Reilly and request that
the building be evaluated by the City’s Landmarks Division for potential
Chicago Landmark designation.
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Alderman Brendan Reilly, Office of the 42nd Ward, 311 West Superior, Suite
212 Chicago, IL 60610 (312-642-4242) (312-642-0420 fax)
office@reillyforchicago.com
Other Contacts: SOAR (Streeterville Organization of Active Residents) To
date, the organization has not stated a position on the future of the former
Prentice Hospital building.
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244 East Pearson Street, Suite 101, Chicago, IL 60611-2310, (312-280-2596)
(312-280-4631 fax) www.soarchicago.org
Photos: 1 Hedrich Blessing, 1974; 2,3 4 Landmarks Illinois |
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