Duplicator Building, Morton Hotel
Life Span: 1886-Present
Location: 346-350 Dearborn (old), 530 South Dearborn Street
Architect: Edward P. Baumann
- Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, 1904
Franklin Engraving and Electrotyping Co.’s Bldg.—346 to 350 Dearborn.
Chicago Tribune, November 10, 1892
THINKS IT OF INCENDIARY ORIGIN.
Fire in the Smith-Colbert Printing Office Does $500 Damage.
Fire in the printing establishment of the Smith-Colbert Printing company, No. 350 Dearborn street, at 9:33 o’clock last night, supposed to be of incendiary origin, did damage to the amount of $500.
The Smith-Colbert company had trouble with some of its employes two weeks ago and gave orders to the watchman who makes hourly rounds of the building to allow none of the employes in the building after 6 p.m. The watchman was through the building at 7 o’clock and returned at 9:30 o’clock. Aa the watchman entered he smelled smoke, and going to the fourth floor found a blaze in a corner of the room amongst a pile of rubbish, under shelving filled with paper stock. The fire department was called and extinguished the flames. A pile of paper scraps was found under the shelves and the watchman is sure it was not there when he made his first round.
The building at No. 350 Dearborn street is an eight-story structure and is occupied almost wholly by printing and binding firms. The Poole Printing company, the American Printing and Binding company, and Rubel Bros, are among tbe firms occupying space.
Chicago Tribune, November 27, 1984
BUILDINGS TO BECOME HOTEL
Paul Stepan & Associates completed the purchase of the Morton and Duplicator buildings at 522-538 S. Dearborn St., Chicago. Stepan plans to combine and renovate the two structures into an 85,000-square-foot 140-room hotel to be operated by The Management Group.
Chicago Tribune, August 17, 1986
MORTON HOTEL SET IN S. LOOP
The Philipsborn Co. of Chicago has arranged an $8.15 million open-end construction loan for the renovation-construction of the Morton Hotel in the South Loop Printers Row area.
Work on the 135-room hotel at 524 S. Dearborn St. will include renovation of the 12-story Morton Building and the nine-story Duplicator Building and construction of a third building. Both existing buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The hotel is being developed by Morton Hotel Partners, a limited partnership. The architect is Booth Hansen & Associates of Chicago and the general contractor is W.E. O`Neil Construction Co. of Chicago.
The Chicago-based Management Group will handle operations at the hotel, scheduled for occupancy early next year.
- The Morton Hotel at 524 S. Dearborn St. i the South Loop will combine two renovated historic buildings with new construction. It is scheduled to open early next year.
- Duplicator Building
Robinson Fire Insurance Map
1886
- Duplicator Building
Greeley-Carlson Street Atlas of Chicago
1891
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