Chicago’s Wrigley Building, constructed in 1921, is the “whited sepulcher” of Michigan Avenue, gleaming in terra cotta like the rows of teeth ostensibly cleansed by Wrigley’s Chewing Gum, the company that built the Beaux-Arts edifice. But its extravagant looks are only part of the story. Unfrozen hosts Robert Sharoff and William Zbaren, who wrote and photographed the new book from Rizzoli, The Wrigley Building: The Making of an Icon, to hear the rest.

Intro / Outro:

“24 Hour Limes,” by The Cooper Vane

Discussed:

Graham, Anderson, Probst & White
Charles Beersman
Julia Morgan
Arts Club of Chicago
Joe Mansueto
Joe and Rika Mansueto Library, Helmut Jahn, 2011
John Vinci
Phillip Wrigley
William Hale “Big Bill” Thompson
Girilda Tower, Seville
Chateau Chambord, Loire Valley, France
New York Municipal Building, Stanford White, 1914
The Carter Family
Tribune Tower, Howells and Hood, 1925
London Guarantee Building, Alfred Alschuler, 1923
333 North Michigan Avenue, Holabird & Roche, 1928
Belden-Stratford Hotel, Meyer Fridstein, 1923
Waldor-Astoria Chicago, Lucien Lagrange, 2009
Chicago Fire Stadium
Stanley Tigerman
Studio Blue, Cheryl Towler Weese

101. The Wrigley Building: The Making of an Icon