Home Insurance Building

19th century commercial building in Chicago, Illinois
Place tower_block Q944544
Home Insurance Building
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Home Insurance Building

Summary

Home Insurance Building is a tower block[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of tower_block entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (638 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Home Insurance Building is located in Chicago[3].
  • Home Insurance Building is in the country of United States[4].
  • Home Insurance Building's image is recorded as Home Insurance Building.JPG[5].
  • Home Insurance Building's instance of is recorded as tower block[6].
  • Home Insurance Building's instance of is recorded as destroyed building or structure[7].
  • Home Insurance Building's instance of is recorded as early skyscraper[8].
  • Home Insurance Building's architect is recorded as William Le Baron Jenney[9].
  • Home Insurance Building's Commons category is recorded as Home Insurance Building[10].
  • Home Insurance Building's Structurae structure ID is recorded as 20000238[11].
  • Home Insurance Building's Emporis building ID is recorded as 102645[12].
  • +1885-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Home Insurance Building[13].
  • Home Insurance Building's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 41.8796, 'lon': -87.632}[14].
  • Home Insurance Building's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02n_lc[15].
  • Home Insurance Building's floors above ground is recorded as {'amount': '+12'}[16].
  • Home Insurance Building's CTBUH Skyscraper Center building ID is recorded as 9071[17].
  • Home Insurance Building's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as place/Home-Insurance-Company-Building[18].
  • Home Insurance Building's SkyscraperPage building ID is recorded as 10370[19].
  • Home Insurance Building's archINFORM project ID is recorded as 6038[20].
  • Home Insurance Building's state of conservation is recorded as demolished or destroyed[21].
  • Home Insurance Building's state of use is recorded as permanently closed[22].

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Geography

Home Insurance Building is in the country of United States[4]. It is located in Chicago[3].

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include tower block[6], destroyed building or structure[7], and early skyscraper[8].

History and Context

+1885-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Home Insurance Building[13].

Why It Matters

Home Insurance Building ranks in the top 2% of tower_block entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (638 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] It is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] . wikidata.org.
  7. [3] . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . archinform.net. Retrieved . archinform.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Home Insurance Building. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/home-insurance-building
MLA “Home Insurance Building.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/home-insurance-building.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_home-insurance-building_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Home Insurance Building}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/home-insurance-building}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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