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Washburne Trade School
Chicago
This Prairie-style industrial building at 31st and
Kedzie is in the process of demolition, following a
devastating February 15th four-alarm fire. The Nimmons &
Fellows-designed building (1909) was placed on Landmarks
Illinois’
Chicagoland Watch List for 2006-07, shortly after
plans were announced for a new park on the site of the
vacant structure.
The park location subsequently was
moved and reuse plans were underway at the time of the
fire, which apparently was started by a homeless person
seeking shelter in the building. Originally a liquid
carbide factory, the complex was converted to
educational use as a school for building trades and
culinary arts programs. Chicago Public Schools closed
the facility in the mid-1990s due to falling enrollment.
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