Chicago’s famed Prairie Avenue architecture bookstore may close?
This is so sad!! One of the places I actually wanted to visit, especially after all of my research on Wright is closing and trying to sell. So sad 
“Chicago’s famed Prairie Avenue architecture bookstore may close” via The Chicago Tribune….
Why? According the article [""People would come to the bookshop with their notepad, make notes of what they wanted and then go buy it somewhere else," Wilbert Hasbrouck said last week. He blamed the 10.25 percent sales tax for driving buyers to online booksellers like Amazon.com."]
What was it? ["The bookshop is more like a library than a Barnes & Noble. On the forest-green walls of its 9,000-square-foot, three-level space are gold letters spelling out the names of more than 300 architects, from Frank Lloyd Wright to Helmut Jahn. It's a meeting place, of sorts, for Chicago's notoriously competitive architectural community.
"You would run into other architects there -- or hide from other architects," Eifler said."]
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