Crystal Block, Hershey Hall, Inter Ocean Building
Life Span: 1875-1905
Location: Near NE Corner Dearborn and Madison Street
Architect: TBD
- Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, 1880
Hershey Music Hall.—83 Madison.
Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, 1884
Inter Ocean (daily, weekly and semi-weekly) W. F. Nixon, gen. manager 85 Madison
Chicago Tribune, December 5, 1875
All the stores on the ground floor of the new Crystal Block, on Madison street, opposite The Tribune office, have been rented, together with some of the upper offices. Rents are generally low and dull. There is some demand for small stores. House rents are quiet.
Chicago Tribune, December 31, 1875
THE HERSHEY MUSIC-HALL
now almost completed, bids fair to become the principal musical resort of Chicago. It will contain a great concert organ, teaching-rooms to accommodate several hundred pupils, and all the appliances of a first-class music school.
- Madison street looking east from Dearborn about 1885. Henry E. Dixie was playing at Madison Hall.
Chicago Tribune, October 15, 1876
Ground has been broken for the new music hall to be erected by the Hershey School of
Art, in the rear of the Crystal Block, opposite McVicker’s Theatre.
Inter Ocean, June 2, 1880
OUR REMOVAL.
The offices of The Inter Ocean have been removed to Crystal Block, opposite McVicker’s Theatre. It will be some days before everything can be properly settled and arranged, and our friends calling upon us will have to put up with some inconvenience. The removal was necessitated by our growing business and the demand for larger and more centrally located quarters. Crystal Block will hereafter be known as The Inter Ocean Building.
Inter Ocean, April 5, 1905
Fuller Company Secures Contract for Construction of New Boston Store Building for Mrs. Charles Netcher.
The George A. Fuller company has been awarded the general contract for the construction of the Boston store for Mrs. Charles Netcher. As already announced, It will be a twelve story structure, covering the entire south half of the block bounded by Washington, State, Madison, and Dearborn streets, and will be built in five sections. The first of these includes part of the State street frontage and the premises 81 to 85 Madison street, the second section part of the State street frontage, on which half of the old building now stands; the third section the other half of the old building; the fourth section, remodeling the Champlain building, and the last section that portion of the block facing Dearborn street, extending from Madison street to the alley north. The complete structure is estimated to cost $3,000,000.
- Crystal Block
(Hershey Hall)
Robinson Fire Map
1886
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