Merchants’ Hotel
Life Span: 1855-1864
Location: La Salle street, North of Lake, Next to Marine Bank
Architect: Messrs, Van Osdel & Baumann
Chicago Tribune, April 20, 1855
New Buildings.
Two new brick buildings are to be erected on La Salle street, North of Lake and next to the Marine Bank. The two together will be fifty feet front on La Salle street, and will run back eighty feet. They will be five stories high. The first front story will be fifteen feet high, and constructed of iron, of the most beautiful style, cast at the Eagle works in Buffalo, and furnished at a cost of $3,300. The second, third, fourth and fifth stories will be respectively 13, 12, 11 and 10 feet high, and the fronts faced with Athena stone. It is intended to make two handsome stores in the city. and the whole cost will be from 24,000 to $28,000.
Messrs. Van Osdel & Baumann are the architects. Messrs. Starkweather & Mooney have the contracts for the mason work.
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