Van Buren Building, Kultchar Building, 212 W Van Buren Building
Life Span: 1893-Current
Location: Van Buren between 5th Ave and Franklin streets
Architect:: Flanders & Zimmerman
- Lakeside Business Directory of the City of Chicago, 1899
Vanburen The—185 to 189 Vanburen.
Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, 1904
Vanburen Bldg.—185 to 189 Vanburen.
Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, 1911
Vanburen Bldg.—240 W. Vanburen.
Rand McNally’s Bird’s Eye Views of Chicago, 1893
The Van Buren Building
At 187-191 Van Buren Street, is a very new steel skyscraper, 130 feet high. It stands on a lot but 50 feet wide and 80 feet deep, and rises to 10 stories above the basement. Its front is of cut-stone and brick. It contains 100 suites of offices, and has 1 freight and 2 passenger elevators. It is occupied by manufacturers’ agents and wholesale jobbers. Erected in 1893.
Chicago Tribune, June 11, 1893
Why Not in Dollars and Cents?
For the first time in the memory of old brokers mortgages upon improved real estate in Chicago were recorded in pounds and shillings sterling last Monday and Tuesday, the Scottish Provident Institute being the grantor in both cases. Last Monday a mortgage of £51,371 12s was recorded by the Scottish Provident Institute upon part of Lot 4, Block 137, school section addition, for five years from May 1, 1893, at 6 per cent per annum. This is the Ellsworth property at Nos. 331 to 335 Dearborn street, sixty feet front, running seventy feet to an equivalent on Plymouth place. Upon this property J. W. Ellsworth has erected a fourteen-story modern office building at a post of about $300.000. The value of the ground is considered by experts to be also $300,000, so that the entire security would represent about $600.000. The amount in pounds and shillings evidently stands for $250,000.
The Scottish Provident Institute last Tuesday recorded a mortgage for £12,329 3s, equal to $50,000, upon Lot 3 in Lots 14 to 16, Block 91, school section addition. This property comprises the premises Nos. 189 and 191 Van Buren street, 534×80 feet, upon which M. R. Kultchar, the owner of the ground, has recently erected a ten-story office and wholesale building of modern design at a cost of $150,000. The property represents a value of at least $100,000, so that the entire security would amount to $250,000. In this case also the loan is for five years at 6 per cent per, annum.
Inland Architecture, August, 1892
- Van Buren Building
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map
1906
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