Moving Stairs, Chicago’s Initial Subways
Leave a commentIn this week’s edition of Flashback Friday, a postcard featuring Chicago’s first subways, which opened in the early 1940s.
In this week’s edition of Flashback Friday, a postcard featuring Chicago’s first subways, which opened in the early 1940s.
As the name implies, the Conservatory – Central Park Drive CTA station serves as the stop for the Garfield Park Conservatory. An interesting aspect of this beautiful structure is that it once served another location with a different name.
Previously known as Homan station, CTA deconstructed the building located at Homan and Lake in 2000. It was later reassembled at Lake and Central Park in 2001.
About two months ago, the Belmont ‘L’ station in Avondale was in the press as a secondary part of CTA’s retirement of the 2200 series railcars. This transit station in the International Style, along with sister stop Logan Square, was designed by Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill along with the then-new stainless steel cars in the late 1960s.
Although often overlooked as an architectural treasure, Belmont is a beautiful example of functional minimalism.