Chicago - Marquette Building

This e-shaped building is a steel frame, with masonry and terra cotta, and 17-stories high. The Marquette Building was designed in 1895 by Holabird & Roche. The hexagonal lobby displays a Tiffany glass mosaic by J.A. Holzer. It illustrates missionary Jacques Marquette's explorations of the Mississippi River basin. Marquette whose journal is illustrated in the bronze plaques above the building's doors was one of the first Europeans to visit the area.