Over the years, I've read about the long-gone Mecca apartments in Bronzeville. I interviewed the old timers who remember it---I even heard the blues song about it. But I'd never actually seen the building until now.
And here it is above. One of three arcade apartments built in Chicago. The Yale and the Brewster are still with us. The Mecca (demolished shortly after this photograph was taken in 1951) was sacrificed to build Crown Hall at IIT, a stellar piece of architecture in its own right, but I do wish we could have had them both today.
Photos courtesy of Life's Google Archive. Meca comments from Lee Bey's Urban Observer blog.
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