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Women's Temperance Union
Temple in Chicago Illinois
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Women's Temple
Architect: Burnham and Root, 1891-92, southwest corner of LaSalle
and Monroe Streets, demolished in 1926.
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The Women's Temple was commissioned by the Women's Christian
Temperance Union. Some called it excessively fussy and feminine, but
Root felt that a building also should represent those who commissioned
it (another argument was that this particular group's tendencies would
have been to a plainer, more utilitarian design). It was, however, a
typical John Root design in that it was functional and designed to
permit as much light as possible into the interior of the building.
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