Fisher Studio Homes

This is one of my favorite buildings in Chicago - the art moderne Fisher Studio Homes at 1209 N. State Pkwy. This white brick and glass block apartment was built in 1936 by Andrew Rebori with Edgar Miller. Besides this building, Rebori design a home a block or two away where Bertram Goldberg lived when he designed the Marina City. Andrew Rebori also designed the House for Brick Manufacturers Association of America at the The Century of Progress Homes of Tomorrow Exhibition at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. And Rebori collaborated (not sure how much, but he is credited) with Holabird and Root on the LaSalle Bank Tower.
The sides of the facade and edges of the entrance curve inward. One side of the facade nestles a stairway indicated from the street by vertical bands of glass block rising in stair step. The stair rises to a second floor open air corridor that is perpendicular to the street. The aparments are in a bar that stretches down the side of the lot along this corridor. These units open to a long courtyard that parallels the building. There are some interesting details on the front - a few cast panels that look like one of the metopes from the Parthenon in Athens - South 27 which shows the Satyrs fighting the Lapiths. There is another interesting modern studio building in Old Town.

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