McCormick’s Building
Life Span: 1868-1871
Location: NW corner Lake and Michigan Ave
Architect: E. Burling
- Edwards’ Annual Directory in the City of Chicago, for 1869
McCormick’s Building—Northwest corner Lake street and Michigan avenue.
King Henry W. & Co., (Henry W. King. Edward J. Minot and E. W. Dewey). clothing and gents’ furnishing goods, whol. 4 and 6 Lake
Kohn H. A. & Bros. (Henry A., Joseph A., David A. and Julius Kohn), clothing, cloths and woolens, whol. 12 and 14 Lake
Edwards’ Annual Directory in the City of Chicago, for 1870
McCormick’s Building—Northwest corner Lake street and Michigan avenue.
King Henry W. & Co., (Henry W. King. Edward J. Minot and E. W. Dewey). clothing, whol. 4 and 6 Lake
Edwards’ Annual Directory in the City of Chicago, for 1871
McCormick’s Building—Lake, nw. cor. Michigan av.
King Henry W. & Co., clothing, whol. 4, 6 and 8 Lake
Chicago Evening Post, March 16, 1868
RISING FROM THE ASHES.
The Great Lake Street Fire Rebuilding Commenced.
The smoke of the awful fire which swept away fifteen lofty business buildings on Lake street, and turned more than a score of firms into the street, has hardly cleared away, and yet busy preparations are already going on for rebuilding most of the structures and the coming autumn will find the trace of the great conflagration entirely obliterated.
The work of rebuilding the ten structures, beginning at the corner of Lake street and Michigan avenge, and running west, has already commenced, and the mass of bricks, charred timbers, broken columns, and other debris, is being rapidly removed.
The block from Michigan avenue west to the alley, and formerly numbered from 4 to 14 inclusive, is to be rebuilt by Messrs. C. H. McCormick, and Kohn Bros., Mr. McCormick building Nos. 6, and 8 ; Messrs. Kohn Bros., 10, and 14. Both will probably build on the same general plan, making a fine five story block, with plain marble front and galvanized cornices. The stores will have a front of 66½ feet, and those of Messers. Kohn Bros,, will be 120 deep, an additional 24 feet having been purchased. The cost of each building will he about $25,000, making the total cost of the block not far from $250,000.
Nos. 10, 12, and 14, are to be used as a cloth and clothing store, which the proprietors intend make the largest of the kind in Chicago. The buildings will probably be completed by the middle of August.
Across the alley, Messrs. Sawyer Bros, Wm. Butterfield, and Wm. C. Dow, (agent for the owner, residing in Madison, Wis.,) intend building on the site of 16, 18, 20, and 22, a five-story block, marble front and galvanized cornices; each house with 9 front of 24 feet, and 140 feet in depth, to cost about $20,000, the entire block also to be finished in’ August. No. 16, when complete, will be leased to Messrs. Burnhams & Van Schaack, druggists, and No. 18 to Messrs. Foreman Bros. as a large clothing store. Propositions for leasing the other buildings are being offered.
Mr. I. H. Burch, who arrived from Europe on Friday, intends rebuilding his block of five stores, Nos. 33 to 41, on the corner of Lake street and Wabash avenue, but has not yet decided upon the plans or the time for commencing.
It is to be hoped that he will conclude to rebuild in the same style as before, so as to preserve the uniformity of this splendid block of iron-front structures. The cornices of the fine building opposite this block, which were badly scorched during the fire, are being repainted, and will soon show no trace of the fiery ordeal through which they passed,.
Chicago Tribune, May 20, 1868
NOTICE.
The undersigned have this day formed a Co-partnership and for the manufacturing and jobbing of Clothing and Furnishing Goods under the firm name of Henry W. King & Co., Chicago, and Brownings, King & Co., New York.
Henry W. King, Wm. C. Browning & Co., Edward J. Minot, Edward W. Dewey.
We shall occupy stores Nos. 4 and 6 Lake-st., August 1.
- McCormick’s Building
NW corner Lake and Michigan ave
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map
1869
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