NEAR WEST SIDE — A group of turn-of-the-century buildings on the Rush University campus is being torn down this week.
Now a contiguous building, the four buildings on Wood Street between Harrison Street and Congress Parkway are being torn down this week and will make way for green space, confirmed Nancy Di Fiore, assistant director of media relations at Rush University Medical Center. The demolition is part of Rush University's decade-long campus transformation.
The buildings include Rush University's Jones Building, opened around 1888 after Rush Medical College was destroyed by the Great Chicago Fire of 1871; the 1903 Senn Building; the 1912 Murdoch Building and the 1923 Rawson Memorial Building.
The first building built on the Rush campus after the Great Chicago Fire was replaced by the Rawson Memorial Building, according to the medical center archives.
Rush has been working to relocate departments housed in the buildings since 2012. Departments were relocated to Rush's 14-story butterfly-shaped tower at Ashland Avenue near Paulina Street, which opened in 2012.
The buildings do not have landmark status and historically significant items and architecture elements will be preserved, Di Fiore said Tuesday.
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