Manierre Building, Merchants’ Savings, Loan and Trust building
Life Span: 1872-1905
Location: NE corner of Madison and Dearborn
Architect:
- Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, 1874
Merchants’ Savings, Loan and Trust Co. Solomon A. Smith, pres; Charles Henrotin, cash; Madison se. cor. Dearborn
Land Owner, J. M. Wing & Co. pubs. and proprs. 9, 89 Madison
Chandler H. H. & Co. (Hannibal H. Chandler, Richard S. Thain, Warren S. Edes and Daniel M. Lord) newspaper advertisement brokers, 2, 89 Madison
Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, 1880
Merchants’ Savings, Loan and Trust Co. John Tyrell, v. pres; Henry E.Lowe, cash; Frank C. Osborn, asst. cash; 103 Dearborn
Chicago Tribune, July 7, 1872
Some New Buildings.
Messrs. G. & W. R. Manierre are interested in a number of the best buildings now being constructed. First on the list is that on the north-east corner of Madison and Dearborn, to which casual allusion has before been made. It is 80 feet on Madison by 40 on Dearborn, with truncated corner. There will be four stories and a high basement. The material is Buena Vita stone, the same shade that attracts so much attention in the Chamber of Commerce. It is pointed and cut in artistic style, The interior of the building will be finished in hard wood, and plate glass will fill the spacious windows. The only wood in the building are the joists. The Merchants’ Saving, Loan and Trust Company will occupy the corner for banking purposes, and the upper floors will be rented for offices.
Rebuilt Chicago, J. M. Wing Co., 1873
- Dearborn and Madison Streets, Chicago. Occupied by The Merchants Savings Loan and Trust Co.
Chicago Tribune, January 9, 1891
FOR A SIXTEEN-STORY BUILDING.
A Syndicate After the Northeast Corner of Dearborn and Madison.
A sixteen-story building at the northeast corner of Madison and Dearborn streets is among the probabilities it the negotiations for a long lease of the property there prove successful. Some time ago a syndicate, the names of the principals in which are known only to their brokers, selected the site as a desirable one for a big building it desired to erect.
The brokers entered into negotiations with the owner of the property on the corner and the two lots north, with Henning & Speed, owners of the block on three lots immediately adjoining, and with the representative of the John Jones estate, to which the building at No. 119 Dearborn street belongs. The offer made was $75,000 per annum for a ninety-nine state hase, subject to revaluations.
Obstacles have arisen and as far could be learned last night the deal has fallen through for the present. George Manierre of No. 61 Bellevue place, the owner of the corner, is not in the city, but Henry Dibblee, his partner, in the real-estate business, said last night:
- Mr. Manierre was’ willing to make the lease, I believe, when the negotiations were first begun, and I think Henning & Speed were also ready to sign a lease on favorable terms. I know nothing about the feeling of other owners in the matter. But the deal was never closed, but just why I cannot say. I do not know who the principals are, as all the business was transacted by brokers, who did not divulge the names of their clients.
“I understand that the purpose of the would-be lessors, if they receive the lease, is to erect a sixteen-story building to excel any in the city.
The three buildings coveted by the syndicate are all tenanted now and the Manierre Building pays about half of what is offered by the syndicate.
- Manierre Building
About 1890.
Inter Ocean, July 2, 1905
Last Tuesday the wrecking of the old landmark at 81 to 87 East Madison street, familiarly known as the Hannah & Hogg building, which also housed Sam T. Jack’s theater, started to make room for the new fourteen story building, the new home of the Boston Store.
The property from State street to Dearborn street, on the north side of Madison street and extending north to the alley, is owned or controlled under ninety-nine year leases by Mrs. Mollie Netcher, widow of the late Charles Netcher, who amassed a remarkable fortune in the management of the great Boston store.
The location is one of the most accessible in the down town district.
It is the intention to finally cover this entire half-block, 325×163 feet, with a building eighteen stories high. The architects are Holabird & Roche, and the contractors for the general work are John Griffiths & Sons.
Bullding Entirely Fireproof.
The building is to be of the highest class of fireproof, skeleton construction, department store buildings, with walls and columns supported on mammoth concrete caissons, extending down 100 feet below the sidewalk to the solid rock underlying the clay of the Chicago basin.
The most Interesting feature of this building is the great amount of space occupied below the street level. The entire basement which is fifteen feet in the clear, is devoted to salesrooms, and below this is a twelve foot clear story devoted to shipping-rooms, and below this again is the deep second sub-basement.
Lower Storles of Granite.
The two lower stories will be of polished gray granite, and above this, beginning at the sills of the third story, the entire front will be of light gray, full glazed terra cotta, with the divisions between windows and the moldings around windows of dark green, full glazed terra cotta.
The interior finish generally will be of mahogany.
Every precaution has been taken to protect life and property from fire. Each elevator and staircase is inclosed in fireproof partitions, shutting off these means of exit on each floor, not only from fire, but also from smoke, which, by causing serious panics is nearly as fatal. The building is equipped with a complete automatic sprinkler system, protecting every nook and corner of this great building against even incipient fires. Each piece of steel is inclosed in fireproof tile, and all columns, girders, lintels, etc., are incased in cement and stone concrete, In addition to the usual hollow tile fireproofing. There are stand pipes and hose reels located so that fifty feet of hose will reach every part of each floor, and, in addition to all these precautions, the building will have eight fire escapes, generally of the stairway type.
There will be a complete restaurant on the fifth floor, with kitchen and serving rooms.
Space of Serviee Department.
The service department occuples a space 150 feet long In the alley at the middle of the building and 50 feet deep north and south, and is entirely shut off from the rest of the building by walls and fire doors. In this space on the various floors are the shipping and receiving platforms, freight elevators, the employes’ toilets, locker-rooms, lunchrooms, kitchen, unpacking room, workrooms, etc., and where It is not intended that the customers will enter. In this space are the employes’ staircases and elevators and all the utilities of the service departments.
At the rear of the middle section of the main store and near the escalators and the main aisle of the store is a balcony rest and writing-room for lady customers, with the toilets, hospital, lavatories, etc., in connection with the balcony.
Everything has been done to make this the Inest department store In the world, both as to arrangement, equipment, comfort, safety, and stability.
- NE Corner Dearborn and Madison Streets
Robinson Fire Insurance Map
1886.
- NE Corner Dearborn and Madison Streets
Greeley-Carlson Atlas of Chicago
1891.
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