Highland Park landmark featured on ‘Oceania’ cover 9:50 pm // Thursday, June 21, 2012
Posted by susan in chicago, news, oceania, photography.trackback
The structure on the cover of the Smashing Pumpkins’ new album Oceania has been identified as the North Shore Sanitary District Tower. The tower is located in tony Chicago suburb Highland Park, which also happens to be Pumpkins front man Billy Corgan’s current home base.
Built in 1931, the tower features Art Deco motifs. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 (you can search for it on their site by entering the reference number 83000322). It is located on a knoll just off the shores of Lake Michigan, near Rosewood Beach.
The tower was photographed for the Oceania cover by Richard Shay, son of Art Shay, the famed Chicago photographer who has been working with Billy Corgan over the last two years.
UPDATE (6/23): The tower is featured in an animated promotional video for the Australian release of Oceania.
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It is just north along the beach from Billy’s tea shop.
Oh … well, gee uh …
Good for him!
For the past two weeks I’ve been going to see the sunrise right in front of this :)
You can see it in Bing Maps’s Birds Eye view, but it doesn’t look like much. Don’t everyone run there and annoy the rich folks.
don’t wanna sound crude … but it kinda looks like a penis
I actually own a penis. It’s on my body, and I got to tell you. It doesn’t look anything like this. It isn’t stone, it isn’t HUGE and it doesn’t have a sharp point/cone on the end.. I’m wondering what penis you are looking at…?
I didn’t say that it is a bad thing that the cover looks to me like a giant falic simbol …
i thought it was a cell phone tower
@apm…you beat me to it.
cool. so what is the purpose of a sanitary tower?
It was likely a water tower for the sanitary district.
They pump water to the top, then gravity generates the water pressure that pushes water through the Sanitary District’s pipes.
Lala: what on earth is a “falic simbol”?