Kaskaskia Building
Life Span: About 1892-TBD
Location: 327-329 Dearborn (Old), 501-505 South Dearborn Street
Architect: TBD
- Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, 1904
Kaskaskia Bldg.—327 Dearborn.
1928 Polk’s Chicago Numerical Street and Avenue Directory
Kaskaskia Bldg. 501 S. Dearborn Street
Rand, McNally & Co.’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.
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