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Levitan Building
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Entrance to the Levitan Building at 15 West Main Street, which exhibits Egyptian architecture in the terra cotta details. The columns are copies of Eyptian columns in the Chicago Art Institute. Claude and Starck designed the building.
August 31, 1969
Potter, James T.
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WHi 35531
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