Kaskaskia Building
Life Span: About 1892-TBD
Location: 327-329 Dearborn (Old), 501-505 South Dearborn Street
Architect: TBD
Rand McNally’s Birds’-Eye-Views of Chicago, 1893
Printing-house Row, from Van Buren Street.
The page (below) portrays faithfully the extraordinary double row of high buildings which lines Dearborn Street between Van Buren and Harrison streets. This is Printing-house Row so called from the large number of printing-offices included within its limits. Among the high structures of this group, described elsewhere, are the ① Old Colony, the ② Girard, the ③ Manhattan, the ④ Monon, the ⑤ Como, the ⑥ Caxton, the ⑦ Pontiac,, and the ⑧ Ellsworth.
!928 Polk’s Chicago Numerical Street and Avenue Directory
501 S. Dearborn Street, Kaskaskia Bldg.
—Selz Adolph & Son Inc adv serv
2d fl Cross & Banta
—Show Printing Co
4th fl Wilson H H Co labels
5th fl Claflin-Hill Printing Co
—Mercantile Adv Co
6th fl American Job Book Bindery
—Comet Engraving Co
—Universal Loose Leaf Co
7th fl Hammersmith Engraving Co
—Kellett Co The grinders
—Hofbauer Geo grinder
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