Kimball Building
Life Span: 1892-1940?
Location: 315, 316 and 317 Michigan av., Southwest corner of South Michigan Avenue and 11th Street
Architect: Flanders & Zimmerman
- C. P. Kimball Building
1899
Rand McNally Bird’-Eye Views of Chicago, 1893
② The Kimball Building
This conspicuous feature of Michigan Boulevard stands at the southwest corner of Harmon Court, with frontages of 160 feet on the court and 80 feet on the boulevard. The structure is 7 stories high, or 115 feet, the clock-tower rising to the height of 140 feet. Granite, pressed brick, and terra cotta form the exterior, the construction being thoroughly steel and fire-proof. There are 3 elevators—1 passenger and 2 freight. This building was erected in 1892, and is entirely occupied by the owners, C. P. Kimball & Co., as a repository and factory for high-grade carriages, sleighs, and harness.
- C. D. Kimball Catalog
Circa 1906
Cycle and Automobile Trade Journal, March, 1909
C. P. Kimball & Co., 315 Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill., exhibited a complete line of automobiles bodies on Berliet and Peerless chassis. The bodies shown were full limousine with French cab panels, and finished in golden brown, striped with a broad line of gold leaf, price $1,900, finished in French broadcloth. A special town brougham body is also shown, finished in Yale blue, and upholstered in broadcloth showing an introduction of scarlet harmonizing with the striping. This body is fitted with extra side panels, and extra doors. The phaeton can easily be converted into a limousine. This body sells for $2,100.
Motor Age, January 26, 1911
Kimball Makes a Limousine.
Although the C.P. Kimball Co., of Chicago, is known primarily as a body making concern, still it finds time to manufacture electric pleasure cars, mostly to order. In line with this one of its offerings for the present season is what is termed a station wagon, but which in reality is an electric limousine in that it carries an enclosed body with a capacity of six – four in the tonneau and two on the front seats. This limousine is fitted with solid tires, and wheel steer and a wheelbase of 100 inches. The motive power is derived from a forty-two cell thirteen-plate battery. Another Kimball is an inside-drive coupe with either wheel or lever steer and solid tires, while novelty is a George IV. phaeton, the body on which is constructed along novel lines.
- C. D. Kimball Building
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map
1906
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