Spiegel, Cahn & Co., Spiegel & Co.
Life Span: 1874-TBD
Location: Wabash avenue, between Adams and Jackson
Architect: TBD
Chicago Tribune, September 9, 1875
Spiegel & Cahn
The extensive furniture warerooms of Spiegel & Cahn, No. 251 Wabash avenue, between Adams and Jackson streets, are among the largest and most completely stocked warerooms of the Great West. They occupy a spacious four-story and basement building filled with goods and articles appertaining to their business, such as parlor, chamber, library, and drawing-room furniture, manufactured in the best style and handsomest patterns, from the finest and choicest foreign and domestic woods. In addition thereto they make a specialty of beautifully inlaid tables and stands, music portfolios, easels, pedestals. jardinieres, card-receivers, foot-rests, and fancy chairs, which they are selling largely at the lowest market prices. In manufacturing and handling their wares, Messrs. Spiegel & Cahn employ over sixty hands constantly. A visit to and inspection of their rooms and wares will be found both interesting and profitable, as the utmost courtesy is exercised in exhibiting the goods.
Chicago Tribune, June 2, 1877
SPIEGEL & CAHN.
This firm of fine furniture manufacturers and dealers have been long established on Wabash avenue. The originality, beauty, and durability of their goods has led up to a continually increasing business. Messrs. Spiegel & Cahn are now in commodious and convenient at Nos. 251 and 253 Wabash avenue, where they carry a remarkably large and artistic stock of furniture of all kinds. A particular feature of their business is the making of furniture to order from original desiges, which they prepare when desired. This is a branch of true art and Spiegel & Cahn are among the most worthy exponents. We know that they have furnished many of Chicago’s best residences, as well as elegant cottage and other homes throughout the Northwest, and we commend the firm in question to all who are seeking for beautiful and substantial furniture at honorable prices.
Chicago Tribune, December 23, 1877
CHICAGO AHEAD.
We are pleased to inform the citizens of Chicago and the Northwest that after a spirited competition between New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Chicago, the contract for furnishing the elegant house just finished in Washington. D.C. for the Hon. Senator Windom, has been awarded to the enterprising firm of Messrs. Spiegel & Cahn, 251 and 253 Wabash avenue, again scoring one for Chicago..
The Commercial Advertiser, March 21, 1878
This branch of business enterprise has been rapidly developed in our city within a few years and Chicago is to-day one of the most prominent centres of the furniture trade in the country. The same agencies that have tended to build up and expand other lines of traffic—our unequaled geographical position, grand commercial advantages and splendid transportation facilities—have operated to render the great metropolis of the West the chief distributing point for the vast region regarded as tributary to Chicago in the wholesale furniture trade, until the business has assumed colossal proportions already amounting to millions of dollars annually, with a steady increase in volume.
A representative and leading house In this line is that of Messrs. Spiegel & Co. whose elegant and commodious warerooms are located at Nos 251 and 253 Wabash Avenue where they occupy four floors and basement. The basement is used for storage and miscellaneous purposes. The first floor is devoted to offices and salesroom of dining room and library furniture. The second floor is used for parlor and chamber sets of the finest description in many designs and styles; also for fancy cabinet work. The third and fourth floors are devoted to the storage of duplicate stock, and varnishing and upholstering departments. All in all they have one of the finest and most complete stocks of furniture in the city, and make a special business of supplying the trade throughout the Western country at prices consistent with the times. The business of the house was established in 1874 under the title of Spiegel, Cahn & Co., but on January 1st, 1878, Mr Cahn withdrew from the firm, which continued business under the present title ot Spiegel & Co. They have a constantly increasing trade in all sections of the West and Northwest, many parties formerly making their purchases in the Eastern market now placing their orders wholly in Chicago, to their manifest advantage, as they have concluded that they can do so on the most favorable terms and at manufacturers’ lowest prices; while they also save materially in freight expenses. Their stock presents in it details many features of superior excellence, which entitle it to the consideration of buyers, and fully maintain their past reputation for good workmanship and material. It is the existence of such vast and substantial houses that gives Chicago the honorable position she occupies.
In 1886, Spiegel moved its operations to 249-251 State Street.
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