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Grey Edison Building, red Marquette Building, & mirrored Chase Center.
| South facade of Marquette Building.
| Marquette Building (1895) (17 floors) (140 South Dearborn Av.).
Architect: Holabird & Roche. On National Register.
| Bronze reliefs over doors of Marquette Building showing scenes of western explorations of Jacques Marquette & Louis Jolliet with quotes from their writings.
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Bronze reliefs over doors of Marquette Building showing scenes of earliest known white exploration of the rivers of Illinois & New France.
| Bronze relief of Marquette & Jolliet exploring the Illinois wilderness with native Americans "To follow those waters … which will henceforth lead us into strange lands" on Marquette Building.
| Bronze relief of Marquette holding up peace pipe to hostile native Americans "In vain I showed the calumet … to explain that we had not come as enemies" on Marquette Building.
| Bronze relief of Marquette being portaged by native Americans "Passing two leagues up the river we resolved to winter there … being detained by my illness" on Marquette Building.
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Bronze relief of a Catholic funeral with native Americans "The de Profundis was intoned … The body was then carried to the church" on Marquette Building.
| Detail of bronze doors on Marquette Building.
| Detail of outside tiles of Marquette Building.
| Marquette cycle of mosaics by Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company in lobby of Marquette Building.
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Mosaic portrait of Pere Jacques Marquette (1637-75) Jesuit Catholic priest & explorer of rivers of New France in Marquette Building.
| Mosaic portrait of Louis Jolliet (1646-1700) explorer of western New France in Marquette Building.
| Mosaic portrait of native American Tonti who explored New France with Marquette & Jolliet in Marquette Building.
| Mosaic of Marquette "Firmly resolved to do all & to suffer all for so glorious an enterprise" in Marquette Building.
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Mosaic of Marquette & Jolliet meeting Indians "They answered they were Illinois & in token of peace presented the pipe to smoke" in Marquette Building.
| Mosaic of death of Marquette "28th of May 1675, To die as he had always asked in a wretched cabin amid the forest, destitute of all human aid" in Marquette Building.
| Mosaic mural of Jacques Marquette (1637-75) Catholic priest & explorer of rivers of New France in Marquette Building.
| Mosaic mural of Louis Jolliet (1646-1700) explorer of western New France in Marquette Building.
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Mosaic mural of native American Tonti who explored New France with Marquette & Jolliet in Marquette Building.
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