Armour Research Foundation Physics Research Building
1920s (remodeled 1950, demolished 1975)
55 East 33rd Street
The former Huber & Huber trucking terminal was acquired by the Armour Research Foundation in 1949. This building housed the Institute for Psychological Services in the years immediately prior to its demolition in 1975.
Formerly/Also Known As: Huber and Huber Motor Express Building (1920s-1949), Armour Research Foundation Physics Research Building (ca. 1950s), Armour Research Foundation Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Building No. 2 (1959), Armour Research Foundation Service (1961), 33rd and Wabash Building (1960s), Wabash Building (1960s)
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Wabash Building: “Lost?” Technology News 83, no. 1, September 10, 1967, 3.
33rd and Wabash Building: Illinois Institute of Technology, IIT Bulletin 1964-65 (1964), ii.
Huber & Huber: "ARF Takes Over Truck Terminal," Technology News, November 18. 1949, 1.
Physics Research Building: Illinois Institute of Technology, Office of the President, Annual Report of the President, 1953-54 (Chicago: Illinois Institute of Technology, 1954), 23.
ARF Service: Illinois Institute of Technology, IIT Bulletin 1961-1963 XX, no. 1 (1961), 2.
ARF Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Building No. 2: Illinois Institute of Technology, IIT Bulletin 1959-1961 XVIII, no. 1 (1969), 2.
Dates:
"ARF Takes Over Truck Terminal," 1.
Illinois Institute of Technology, Building and Grounds Committee of the Board of Trustees. Building and Grounds Committee of the Board of Trustees Minutes of Meeting, May 19, 1950, 1.
Untitled Slide, July 1975, 1900.006, Dan Ryan Papers, IIT Archives, Illinois Institute of Technology.
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