3D print the Chicago Water Tower
A free, printable 3D model of the Chicago Water Tower, with the surrounding streets and buildings, generated from real map data in your browser.
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The model you print
Chicago Water Tower in 3D
The landmark on its own, at its size on a 160 mm print. Print friendly thickens thin parts for a 0.4 mm nozzle; Full detail keeps every part.
- Real height
- 56 m
- On a 160 mm print
- 15 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
56 m of the Chicago Water Tower, 15 mm on your shelf
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
- Fine details on a tall tower
A tall, slender tower can carry small decorative details. Print friendly adapts them to the print scale; Full detail keeps every modeled feature, which works best on a larger print.
- One piece with the ground
The Chicago Water Tower is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Chicago Water Tower takes the building color.
- File format
You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About the Chicago Water Tower
The Chicago Water Tower is a 56 m (182.5 ft) former water tower at 806 Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. Inside was a 42 m (138 ft) standpipe that housed a large water pump. Besides helping with firefighting, the standpipe's pressure could be adjusted to damp water surges nearby. A small park, Jane M. Byrne Plaza, is built around it, along the Magnificent Mile shopping district.
Architect William W. Boyington designed the tower in 1869. It is built of yellowing Lemont limestone, and the Louisville Water Tower in Kentucky is the only older one in the United States. Its fame grew when it made it through the Great Chicago Fire in 1871, while neighboring buildings burned to the ground, and ever since it has stood for old Chicago and for how the city recovered after the blaze.
Some White Castle restaurant buildings drew on its design: octagonal buttresses, crenelated towers, and a parapet wall. Not everyone admired it, and Oscar Wilde called it a "castellated monstrosity". The tower is a listed property in the National Register of Historic Places, and it serves as a gallery space for the Chicago Office of Tourism.
About this model
The Chicago Water Tower is one of more than 5,500 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Each model is written as code from public descriptions, plans, photographs and aerial views used only as references; no image or third-party model is copied into it. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. Rights in the building itself, its name and any brands on it are not granted by Mini Skyline; clear them separately before you sell prints. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
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