Illinois Institute of Technology Service Building
13 West 33rd Street
The building was constructed in the early 1940s to serve as as an Armour Research Foundation laboratory building and soon became the first headquarters of the Institute of Gas Technology. An addition was built for the IGT in 1944. The State Street Building also housed Illinois Tech's temporary gymnasium in the mid-1960s. Some reports indicate that this building included a row of 1880s storefronts along State Street, others that the pre-existing section of structure was built in 1926.
Formerly/Also Known As: Institute of Gas Technology (1940s), Armour Research Foundation State Street Building (ca. 1945-ca. 1954), Armour Research Foundation Laboratory (1940s), Armour Research Foundation Chemistry Research Building 1 (1950s), Armour Research Foundation Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Building (ca. 1955), IIT Research Institute Laboratory (1960s), IIT Service (1960s)
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Names:
Institute of Gas Technology: Illinois Institute of Technology, Office of the President, Annual Report of the President, 1967-68.
ARF Laboratory: Illinois Institute of Technology, Technology Center Today and Tomorrow (Chicago: Illinois Institute of Technology, 1948).
ARF Chemistry Research Building I: Illinois Institute of Technology, Your Guide to Technology Center (Chicago: Illinois Institute of Technology, 1957).
ARF Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Building: Illinois Institute of Technology, Bulletin Illinois Institute of Technology March 1955 (1955), 3.
IITRI Laboratory: Illinois Institute of Technology, Office of the President, Annual Report of the President, 1967-68 (Chicago: Illinois Institute of Technology, 1968).
IIT Service: Illinois Institute of Technology, IIT Bulletin 1964-65 (1964).
State Street Building: Illinois Institute of Technology, Office of the President, Annual Report of the President, 1967-68.
Architect:
"Research Building Completed," Technology News, January 14, 1941, 1.
Dates:
"Gas Institute Gets Building Priority," Technology News 34, June 12, 1944, 1.
Illinois Institute of Technology, Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees, Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees Minutes of Meeting, August 9, 1968, 2.Dennis Plouff, "Campus Improvements Involve Removal of Historic Buildings," Technology News, September 8, 1968, 1.
"New Gas Research Lab Will Open Soon," Technology News, August 28, 1944, 5.
"Research Building Completed," 1.
Illinois Institute of Technology, Your Guide to Technology Center (Chicago: Illinois Institute of Technology, 1957).
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