Pontiac Building
Life Span: 1891-Present
Location: NW corner of Dearborn and Harrison streets
Architect: Holabird & Roche
- Lakeside Business Directory of the City of Chicago, 1899
Pontiac Bldg.—358 Dearborn nw. cor. Harrison.
Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, 1904
Pontiac Bldg.—358 Dearborn nw. cor. Harrison.
Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, 1911
Pontiac Bldg.—542 S. Dearborn nw. cor. Harrison.
Pontiac Building
1902
Rand McNally Birdseye Views, 1893
⑦ The Pontiac Building
Is a still larger structure of the same high architectural character, at the northwest corner of Dearborn and Harrison streets, with 100 feet frontage on Dearborn and 70 on Harrison. It has 14 stories and basement, 260 offices, and 2 passenger elevators. The exterior construction is of brick and terracotta, with steel and tile interior. It is occupied by publishers and printers, and cost $375,000.
Printing-house Row, from Van Buren Street.
Print (above) 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.
Chicago Central Business and Office Directory, 1922
Fourteen-story fireproof building; two hy draulic passenger and one freight elevator. Excellent light; fronting on Federal, Harrison and Dearborn streets. Convenient to all lines of transportation. The best of service given tenants at very reasonable rental.
Due to the building’s architectural significance, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 16, 1976.
Pontiac Building
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map
1906
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