Main Building
![Main Building and the "Gorge" (Federal Street and the buildings that lined it)](https://buildinghistory.iit.edu/files/square_thumbnails/fe13c8d81924774dff35d7e79e9f6bde.jpg "Main Building and the "Gorge" (Federal Street and the buildings that lined it)")
Patton & Fisher
1891-1893 3300 South Federal Street
The Main Building was made a Chicago landmark in 2004. The campus' original heating plant was housed in the extension to the south of the Main Building. This extension has had its smokestacks removed, and now serves as a buildings and grounds storage space.
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Name:
Rolf Achilles, Guide to the Campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago: Mies Centennial Project, 1986), 7.
Architect:
Achilles, Guide to the Campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology, 7.
Date:
Achilles, Guide to the Campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology, 7.
Rolf Achilles, Guide to the Campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago: Mies Centennial Project, 1986), 7.
Architect:
Achilles, Guide to the Campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology, 7.
Date:
Achilles, Guide to the Campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology, 7.
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