Evening Post II

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Evening Post & Staats Zeitung Building,
Life Span: 1868-1871
Location: South side Madison, bet. Dearborn and Clark
Architect: A. Baur & Co.

Edwards’ Annual Directory in the City of Chicago, for 1869

Chicago Evening Post

Illinois Staats Zeitung Printing Co.

Edwards’ Annual Directory in the City of Chicago, for 1870
Chicago Evening Post, Post Printing Co. publishers, 104 Madison
Illinois Staats Zeitung Co.A. C. Hesing, pres., 104 and 106 Madison street.

Edwards’ Annual Directory in the City of Chicago, for 1871
Chicago Evening Post, Post Printing Co. publishers. 104 Madison
Chicago Evening Mail, Chicago Evening Mail Co.. publishers. 106 Madison
Staats Zeitung Building—South side Madison, bet. Dearborn and Clark
Coffman John F. real estate, 108 Madison, r. 113 W. Adams
Andrews & Bro. real estate, 108 Madison
May & Coffman. real estate. 108 Madison

Chicago Evening Post, April 2, 1868

Messrs. Rosenfeld and Rosenbaum are preparing to build a fine block on the site of Nos. 106, 108 and 110 Madison street, between Dearborn and Clark and are now engaged in removing the frame houses occupying the site. The new building will have a marble front, with iron cornices, will contain tour stories besides basement, and measure 45 feet by 100, and will cost $55,000. It will be completed by the first of October, and will be occupied in part by the Staats Zeitung newspaper establishment, the first floor being used for stores.

Chicago Tribune, April 6, 1868

On the site of the buildings Nos. 106, 108 and 110 Madison street, Messrs. Rosenfeld & Rosenbaum are designing to erect a magnificent business block. It will have a marble front, with iron cornices, will be in size 45 by 100 feet, four stories in height, and will cost $55.000. This block will be completed 10 October, and will be in part occupied by the Stats Zeitung Company.

Chicago Tribune, April 17, 1870

New Madison Street Stores.
The old rookeries that have stood so long on Madison street, between Clark and Dearborn, are to be torn down, and better buildings will occupy their sites. Messrs. Rosenberg & Rosenfeld are going to erect three stores next to the Staats Zeitung building. The frontage will be 70 feet on Madison street, the depth of the buildings will be 200 feet, and height 68 feet. The front will be of Athens marble, worked up in the French style. The height will be sixty-eight feet from the side walk, divided into four stories. There will also be a spacious basement. The building will cost $75,000, And will be finished on October 1. It has already been rented by Messrs. Pratt, Smith & Co., paper manufacturers and dealers, who will use the main building for stores, salesrooms, etc., and the rear building as a paper manufactory.

The work will be done in the best and most substandal manner. The building is to be heated by steam, and to be furnished with hoisting machines, etc. Messrs. Bauer & Co. are the architects.

And Another.
Next to the above building, extending from it 90 feet on Madison street to the corner of Clark, and thence 100 feet on Clark, will be another magnificent block be built of owned by Mrs. Orsemus Morrison. It will be built of Athens marble, surmounted by an iron cornice 60 feet from the sidewalk. The string cornices, windows, etc., will be on a line with those of the above building, giving the whole the appearance of being one block. The principal floor will contain stores, and the upper flors, offices. All will be heated by steam.

The cost will be $75,000. Messrs. Carter & Drake are the architects.
Chicago Evening Post, August 18, 1868

A. Bauer & Co., Architects,
Messrs. Rosenfield & Rosenberg’s building will be occupied by The Post and Staats Zeitung of Chicago. The building is four stories high, without basement, and is divided into two parts, a front and rear, fronting on Madison street, the other Post Office court. The front on Madison is of Athens stone, and on the court of Milwaukee pressed brick. The second and third stories of the Madison street building divided into good sized well ventilated offices. The fourth story will be used for club rooms. The rear building for printing purposes. The cost of the building is $55,000.

Chicago Evening Post, October 2, 1868

The Post in its New Quarters.
The editorial, composing, press and job departments of The Evening Post were some weeks ago removed from their outgrown quarters on Dearborn street to the spacious and elegant building which had been erected for this paper and the Staats Zeitung, on Madison street, running through to Custom House place. Today our business department has been removed to the splendid counting-room fronting on No. 104 Madison street, and we are now most comfortably located with every appliance in the way of rooms, machinery, fixtures and labor necessary for the successful publication of a first class daily paper. Our counting room is a model of commodiousness and convenience, and is very accessible to business. Handsome plate glass windows, elegant gas fixtures, ample counters and their accompanying appliances make a business office that cannot be excelled in the city. Our accommodating neighbors of the Staats Zeitung occupy a part of the same counting house and there is room enough and to spare.

Land Owner, February, 1871

Messrs. Bradner, Smith & Co.
Passing around the (Morrison) block to the Madison street side, we find another new edifice adjoining it on the east, erected at the same time by Mr. Rosenberg, a capitalist of Chicago, and corresponding with the Morrison block in appearance. Here is an immense double store, 192×45 feet, occupied by Messrs. Bradner, Smith & Co., a well-known paper house. This firm was established on LaSalle street in 1854, from which time their business increased to such an extent that their removal was necessitated last fall to their present elegant and commodious location. Their basement is 210×45, and is used for the storage of manilla, tea, straw board and other descriptions of wrapping papers, in which they deal. Their store is without doubt the best appointed in this line of business in the country. Their upper floors are devoted to the storage of goods in cases, and contain an immense stock of cardboards, wrapping and printing papers, twines, envelopes, etc. This house manufactures the celebrated Winnebago and other papers for mercantile, express, hardware, stationery, book and printing purposes, and being strong in capital and resources—having control of several mills exclusively—they enjoy a large and constantly increasing trade.

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