Carson Pirie Scott Warehouse
Life Span: 1880-1926
Location: NW Corner S. Franklin and W. Adams
Architect: credited to John M. Van Osdel
- Lakeside Business Directory of the City of Chicago, 1899
Henrietta Building.—64 and 66 Wabash av.
Laflin Matthew (estate) 303, 66 Wabash av
Inter Ocean, September 26, 1879
The purchase of the northwest corner of Franklin and Adams streets for the round sum of $91,975 by Mr. George Armour from the Chicago Gas Light and Cole Company was recorded in the transfer of Tuesday, and owing to its magnitude, gave the real estate market quickening impulse that will require counter forces a long time to over come.
Chicago Daily Telegraph, April 21, 1880
George Armour obtained a permit yesterday to build a five-story building at the northwest corner of Franklin and Adams streets, to cost $170,000.
Chicago Tribune, August, 8, 1880
The building of Mr. George Armour on the northwest corner of Franklin and Adams streets is making good progress, and will be finished in three months. Its cost will be $180,000. Its dimensions are 184×160, and its hight five stories. The material is brick, except on the two fronts, which are faced with Lemont stone. There are four elevators. The floor of the building will be laid in maple, except that of the basement, which will be covered with asphaltum to make it absolutely dry, and each floor will be free from any partition. The basement will be nine feet high, the first floor eighteen feet, the second floor fifteen feet, third floor fourteen feet, and fourth and fifth stories each thirteen feet.
Chicago Tribune, March 17, 1893
WILL HAVE THE ENTIRE BLOCK FRONT.
Carson, Pirie, Seott & Co. Extend Their Wholesale Quarters-Other Leases.
It is rumored that Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co. have arranged to extend their wholesale quarters at the northwest corner of Adams and Franklin streets. This firm now occupies the corner, with a frontage of 140 feet on Adams street and 189 feet on Franklin street, under a ten-years’ lease from the George Armour estate at $55,000 a year. The corner of Monroe and Frankiin streets, just across the alley to the north, is now occupied by Kuppenheimer & Co. It fronts 189 feet on Franklin street and 50 feet on Monroe and is owned by the Hovey estate. The present lease expires next January and Kuppenheimer will remove to the Boddie Building. Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co. have leased this block for a long term and so have secured the entire east front on Franklin street between Adams and Monroe streets.
It is also reported that they contemplate adding to their Adans street frontage and have secured an option of lease on the fifty-fout building adjoining the corner, now occupied by Keith Bros. The negotiation of the two leases will give the dry goods firm something like 45,000 feet of ground floor space.
The American Trust and Safety Vault company received articles of incorporation yesterday from the Secretary of State. This is the corporation which will take the lease of the southwest corner of Clark and Monroe streets and improve it with the twelve-story Galena Building. The capital of the company is placed at $600,000 and Adolph Loeb and W.
H. Keyser, both of whom will be largely interested in the building enterprise, are named as incorporators.
Rand, McNally & Co.’s Bird’s-Eye Views of Chicago, 1893
⑦ Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co.’s Building
Fronts 160 feet on Franklin Street and 140 feet on Adams Street, at the northwest corner. It is 105 feet high, with 6 stories; cut-stone and iron exterior; occupied by the wholesale dry-goods house of Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co. Erected in 1875.
Chicago Tribune, April 7, 1910
Conveys Property to J. T. Pirie.
Record was made during the day of the conveyance by Mrs. Mary Armour White-House and Francis M. Whitehouse, her husband, and Allison V. Armour of New York City to John T. Pirle of the property at the northwest corner of Adams and Franklin Streets, 150×199 feet, with six story building, occupied by Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co. The deed was executed in May, 1903, and the consideration was $1 in the deed, although the price paid was $800,000. The sale was subJect to an incumbrance of $600,000, secured through a trust deed to Noah W. Brooks.
- Carson Pirie Scott Warehouse
Robinson Fire Insurance Map
1886
- Carson Pirie Scott Warehouse
Chicago Directory Co
1905
- Carson Pirie Scott Warehouse
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map
1906
Chicago Tribune, May 23, 1926
- Carson-Pirie Wholesale.
The above picture shows how Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co,’s wholesale building, recently purchased from John F. Farwell & Co., will look when the building within a building told about in these columns on April 25 is completed. The firm is spending more than $1,000,000 on remodeling the structure, the main point of which will be an eight story building erected in the old areaway. When work is finished the building, occupying the block bounded by Adams, Market, and Monroe streets and the Chicago river, will have a floor space of 1,000,000 square fect. The foundation along the river is being dug 100 feet to bedrock. The firm will be able to use the tug and three barges it recently bought to carry goods to and from its 18th street warehouse.
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