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Building with the Playboy name on top, circa 1970 The Palmolive Building , formerly the Playboy Building , is a 37-story Art Deco building at 919 N. Michigan Avenue in Chicago , Illinois. History
The Marshall Field and Company Building is a National Historic Landmark retail building on State Street in Chicago, Illinois.Now housing Macy's State Street, the Beaux-Arts and Commercial style complex was designed by architect Daniel Burnham and built in two stages—north end in 1901–02 (including columned entrance) and south end in 1905–06.
The Merchandise Mart (or the Merch Mart, or the Mart) is a commercial building in downtown Chicago, Illinois.When it opened in 1930, it was the world's largest building, with 4 million square feet (372,000 m 2) of floor space.
The Boeing International Headquarters building was constructed with only the air rights above the railroad tracks, meaning Amtrak still owns the ground rights to the area and the tracks built in 1920 are still in service beneath the building. [4] In 2012, Chicago developer Sterling Bay purchased the building for $100 million.
The first sites in Chicago to be listed were four listed on October 15, 1966, when the National Register was created by the National Park Service: the settlement house Hull House, the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Frederick C. Robie House, the Lorado Taft Midway Studios, and the site of First Self-Sustaining Nuclear Reaction. The NPS first ...
The building name was changed to the Crain Communications Building in March 2012, after Crain Communications moved its headquarters there. [ 5 ] The building is popularly referred to as the Diamond Building or the Vagina Building (from the locally popular but apocryphal story that, with its prominent vertical slit up the front, the building was ...
The Wrigley Building is a skyscraper located at 400–410 North Michigan Avenue on Chicago's Near North Side. It is located on the Magnificent Mile directly across Michigan Avenue from the Tribune Tower. Its two towers in an elaborate style were built between 1920 and 1924 to house the corporate headquarters of the Wrigley Company.
Bond Stores operated at least two locations in the Buffalo, New York area. In 1940, they took over the Givens, Inc. women's and children's apparel store at 452-54 Main Street in downtown Buffalo. In 1940, they took over the Givens, Inc. women's and children's apparel store at 452-54 Main Street in downtown Buffalo.