Highrise #59

**Steuben Club Building** **Art by:** Chris Hytha **Story by:** Mark Houser To burnish their patriotism and prestige after World War I, Chicago businessmen of German descent built a skyscraper for their private club, named after the Prussian noble who trained George Washington's troops. To design their Teutonic tower, they chose a Chicago immigrant trained at the Munich Royal School of Architecture. Club rooms originally filled the narrow upper tower, while the bulkier lower part was mostly leaseable office space, topped with the club's exercise rooms and handball courts, a lavish two-story ballroom and main dining hall, and a skylit natatorium. Financial problems forced the club members...View all