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The Monadnock was commissioned by Boston real estate developers Peter and Shepherd Brooks in the building boom following the Depression of 1873–79. [5] The Brooks family, which had amassed a fortune in the shipping insurance business and had been investing in Chicago real estate since 1863, had retained Chicago property manager Owen F. Aldis to manage the construction of the seven-story ...
In the early 1960s, Bob Chase began developing a plan for a fine art gallery. [5] He had recently graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison [6] [5] and convinced his father, Merrill Chase, who owned a portrait photography business, [1] to join him in opening a fine art gallery that would focus on emerging artists, mid-career artists, and works of art on paper by masters.
The Chicago firm did not disclose a price, but sources said it was about $145 million. [h] [20] This was the last step in that piecemeal sale process. [20] In May 2016, Hearn Co. announced that they were seeking buyers for the naming rights with possible signage rights for the building. [24]
To facilitate construction of a new house, Palmer (or the previous owner of the property) demolished the two school buildings on the site. [4] Palmer engaged the architects Delano & Aldrich, who designed a neoclassical house with a handsome white-marble balustrade, separating a three-story brick facade from a two-story slate mansard roof. The ...
The Chicago Board of Trade Building is a 44-story, 604-foot (184 m) Art Deco skyscraper located in the Chicago Loop, standing at the foot of the LaSalle Street canyon. Built in 1930 for the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), it has served as the primary trading venue of the CBOT and later the CME Group, formed in 2007 by the merger of the CBOT and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
In 2016–2017, filmmaker and cultural heritage activist Nathan Eddy directed a short documentary film about Thompson Center – Starship Chicago. [16] Architect Stanley Tigerman appears in the film. [17] In 2019, Illinois governor J. B. Pritzker signed a bill to begin the sale of the Thompson Center, with a proposed three-year timeline to find ...
The Fisher Building is 20-story, 275-foot-tall (84 m) neo-Gothic landmark building located at 343 South Dearborn Street in the Chicago Loop community area of Chicago. Commissioned by paper magnate Lucius Fisher, the original building was completed in 1896 by D.H. Burnham & Company [ 2 ] with an addition later added in 1907.
The Crain Communications Building is a 39-story, 582 foot (177 m) skyscraper located at 150 North Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago, Illinois. [1] It was also known as the Smurfit–Stone Building and the Stone Container Building.