Leander McCormick Building

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Leander McCormick Building
Life Span: 1872-~1949
Location: NW Corner Wabash Avenue and Lake Street
Architect: W,W. Boyington

LEdwards’ Annual Directory in the City of Chicago, for 1873

Rathbone, Sard & Co.

Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, 1880
Seeberger & Breakey (Anthony F. Seeberger and B. Aiken Breakey) whol. gardware 38 and 40 Lake

Chicago Tribune, February 18, 1872

Leander McCormick will soon erect good brick buildings at Nos. 34, 36, 38 and 40 Lake street.

Land Owner, October, 1872

THE MCCORMICK BUILDINGS.
Our space will not admit of a detailed description of the several buildings erected by the McCormicks since the fire, twelve of which, besides the Reaper Works, are shown in the engraving. Suffice it to say that the McCormicks never put up anything but first-class and elegant structures, The Reaper block an office building being erected on the site of the old Larmon block, at the northeast corner of Clark and Washington streets, and the McCormick building, at the southeast corner of Randolph and Dearborn streets, by Cyrus H. McCormick, are two of the most magnificent edifices in the city, as is also the block, at the northwest corner of Lake street and Wabash avenue, erected by L. J. McCormick, and the heirs of W. S. McCormick. Where men build so largely and so uniformly well as the McCormicks do, the public can look upon their movements but with interest, and feel glad that we have such men among us.

Chicago Evening Post, October 16, 1873

The large building on the north pier, so plainly seen from Michigan avenue or the top of the Exposition building, is the warehouse of Hathbone, Sard & Co., extensive manufacturers of stoves, whose office and salesroom is at 38 and 40 Lake street. They carry stock of 200 tons of repairs, a great convenience to those who use and deal in their stoves.

Chicago Tribune, March 20, 1875

A. F. SEEBERGER,
of Seeberger & Breakey, wholesale hardware, Nos. 38 and 40 Lake street, who is a recognized authority in the statistics of the general hardware trade, was interviewed in regard to the condition and prospects. Mr. Seeberger’s estimate of the aggregate business in hareware for 1874 is $12,000,000, the ratio of increase since 1864 being about as 1 to 3, and while admitting the loss to the trade of about two months’ business by the severity of the winter, gave opinions in favor of a good trade for 1875. From the same gentleman, the reporter learned that this firm, though, like others, depending originally on importations for saws, files, chaine, edged tools, etc., have latterly adopted those of American manufacture as intrinsically superior or better adapted to the trade. Messrs. Seeberger & Breakey are among the largest Western jobbers in all departments of hardware, occupying one of the largest buildings in the country devoted to the business, with a trade extending through the towns, cities, and agricultural districts of the Northwest, from Minnesota and Dakota to Salt Lake and New Mexico.

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