Mentor Block
Life Span: 1873/1906-Present
Location: NE Corner Monroe and State
Architect: Howard Van Doren Shaw (1898 & 1906)
Rand McNally Bird’s Eye Views of Chicago, 1893
⑪ The Mentor Block,
At the northeast corner of Monroe and State streets, fronts 26 feet on State and 80 feet on Monroe, 85 feet high, 7 stories. It was erected in 1873
Chicago Tribune, May 29, 1898
Howard V. D. Shaw has completed plans for a new front for Eugene S. Pike’s building at 161 State street. The building has a frontage of twenty feet and adjoins Mr. Pike’s Mentor Block on the north. The front will be of plate glass and metal. Two stories will be added to make it the same height as the Mentor Block. The interiors of the two buildings have been connected. Two new elevators will be installed. The cost of the improvement will be $15,000.
Chicago Tribune, November 28, 1967
Mentor Building Is Sold Carson’s Purchase Price Undisclosed
Carson Pine Scott & Co. has purchased the 17-story Mentor building on the northeast corner of State and Monroe streets, it was announced yesterday by Turner Bailey & Zoll, real estate firm.
Carson’s purchased the building and the north half of the site from the Eugene S. Pike estate and received an extended ground lease on the south half of the site from the Chicago board of education. The purchase price was not disclosed.
The building was erected in 1906 by Pike and was named for his birthplace in Ohio. George R. Bailey, one of the brokers representing the Pike estate, said Carson’s once held a lease to the Pike property but that it was given up.
Carson’s has regained full control of the entire mock on State street between Monroe and Madison streets. Company officials said they had no plans to alter the use of the Mentor building, now occupied by office space users.
William V. K. Volckens of Turner Bailey & Zoll, also represented the seller. Leo J. Sheridan Sr. represented the buyer.
- Mentor Block
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map
1906
- Mentor Block
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map
1927
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