Prohibition Champagne - Carbide and Carbon Building - Chicago
Prohibition Champagne: Now the Hard Rock Hotel, the Carbide and Carbon Building was built during the Prohibition in Chicago by Daniel and Hubert Burnham to resemble a champagne bottle with a foil top. While most buildings in Chicago at the time sported a light gray limestone facade, the Carbide and Carbon building was domposed of a polished black granite base and a tower covered in deep green terra cotta – a poke at the repressive Prohibition Era laws. It is one of a handful of Chicago skyscrapers to be allowed to have its tower lights permanently illuminated.
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