Inter Ocean Building I, Hotel Grant
Life Span: 1890-1941
Location: NW Corner Madison and Dearborn Streets
Architect: Adler & Sullivan
Inter Ocean, April 14, 1889
The Inter Ocean Building.
Plans have already been drawn for the improvement of the property acquired by The Inter Ocean Building Company. The Haskell Building will be improved, refitted, and converted into a thoroughly modern structure, while the Kohlsaat corner will be denuded of the present structure to give place to a building that will harmonize in design with the adjacent block, to which it will be an addition. The corner will be one of the most attractive in the city, as it is one of the most valuable. It would be premature to give in detail the particulars of the project, as nothing can be decided until the meeting of the incorporators of The Inter Ocean Building Company, which occurs April 16. It may be stated, however, that the new Inter Ocean Building will be the most perfectly arranged, for its purpose, of any newspaper building in the city. The offices to be rented by the public will be entirely separated from the space occupied by the various departments of the newspaper. While, as before stated, details of the project can not yet be given, it is presumed that there will be no unnecessary delay in commencing the improvement, and that they will be hurried to completion.
Inter Ocean, July 21, 1889
THE INTER OCEAN BUILDING.
In publishing the above cut of The Inter Ocean Building, now in process of erection, Frank Leslie’s Newspaper for July 20 said:
The Inter Ocean of Chicago, long recognized, as the stalwart Republican newspaper of the Northwest, is about to have a new home, which is fairly represented in the accompanying illustration. Four months ago Chicago real estate circles experienced considerable of a flurry in the “Kohlsaat deal,” in the announcement that the northwest corner of Dearborn and Madison streets, twenty by forty feet, had been purchased at the rate of $7,500 per front foot, the highest price ever paid fo property in the city. Subsequently the building surrounding the corner in the form of an L was purchased, and with the corner, transferred to The Inter Ocean Building Company (of which Wm. Penn Nixon is President and Clarence L. Peck Secretary and Treasurer), furnishing a frontage of seventy feet on Dearborn, one hundred on Madison, with extension to the alley in the rear, giving a total area of over 9,000 square feet. The building now in course of erection, is a substantial one of stone, the corner extension being fire-proof and seven stories high, surmounted by a tower. The upper (seventh) story of the building, not shown in the illustration, has an arched roof of glass and iron, and will serve for the composing-room. The Inter Ocean Building will be a prominent one, and, considering its central location, a veritable landmark.
Inter Ocean Building
The Inter-Ocean building entrance as depicted by D. Dalziel
Circa 1890
Inter Ocean Building
Early 1890s
Inter Ocean Advertisement from 1893
Inter Ocean Building
1940
Inter Ocean Trade Card
1888
Grant Hotel
1905 Sanborn Fire Map
Chicago Tribune, April 7, 1940
This two story building will replace the old Grant hotel at the northwest corner of Madison and Dearborn streets. Ot will contain a theater, stores, and a rathskeller in the basement. Lowenberg & Loewenberg is the architect.
Inter Ocean Building and Tribune Building II
Greeley-Carlson Company’s Atlas of Chicago
1891
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