Commercial Building
Life Span: 1868-1871
Location: SW corner Lake and LaSalle streets
Architect:
- Edwards’ Annual Directory in the City of Chicago, for 1869
Commercial Building—Southwest corner of LaSalle and Lake.
Loring S. E. & W. L. B. Jenney (Sanford E. Loring and W. L. B. Jenney), architects, rooms 8 and 11 Commercial blk.
Edwards’ Annual Directory in the City of Chicago, for 1870
Commercial Building—Southwest corner of LaSalle and Lake.
Perkins, Stern & Co., (S. C. Perkins, Charles Stern and———), Caligornia wines, 34 and 36 LaSalle
Chicago Evening Post, December 18, 1867
The Commercial Building, situated at the southwest corner of Lake and LaSalle streets, with a front of eighty feet on LaSalle and forty on Lake streets, built in the Italian style of the Palladio school, and faced with Athens marble.
This building is four stories high, exclusive of basement, the upper stories made easy access by wide and elegant halls well adapted stairways, and lighted by a large sky-light. The building is erected for and is the property of Mr. C. F. Gray, and will cost, when completed, about $50,000. It is nearly ready for occupancy. It is intended to be used for business places, and has four offices in the basement, two on the first story, thirty-two by forty feet each, six each on the second and third story, while the fourth story is finished off as one large room.
Chicago Tribune, May 4, 1868
On Monday Messrs. Henry Greenebaum & Co. will occupy the corner office in the Commercial Building, diagonally opposite their old place of business. The Commercial Building is a new marble edifice—one of the ornaments of LaSalle street—and in securing it for a banking office Messrs. Greenebaum & Co. have shown that they are fully alive to the age of progress which marks our city, and in their new location we wish them aburdant success.
- Commercial Building
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map
1869
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