Crerar Adams Warehouse, Rembrandt Building
Life Span: 1910-2012
Location: Southwest corner Erie and Fairbanks Court
Architect: Ottenheimer, Stern & Reichert
- Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, 1911
Crerar, Adams & Co E S Sheperd pres; Charles A Roberts v pres; E M staples treas; Fred R Sheperd sec; railroad supplies E Erie st and Fairbanks ct tel Dearborn-482
Inter Ocean, October 9, 1909
Crerar, Adams & Co., dealers in railway supplies, have bought from Henry R. Lloyd a site for a new warehouse at the southwest corner of Erie street and Fairbanks court, in the St. Clair manufacturing district. The land has a frontage of 220 feet on Erie street by 109 feet on the court and the larger part of this tract will be occupied by a seven-story structure containing 100,000 square feet of floor space, which is estimated to cost not less than $125,000. The sale was made through the Bowes Investment company.
The consideration for the land in this deal is given at $40,000 cash, and it Is said that Mr. Lloyd bought it less than two years ago for $18,600. Crerar, Adams & Co, have been located at the southeast corner of South Water street and Fifth avenue for nearly forty years and are induced to move because of the increasing difficulty experienced in handling business In that congested district.
Crerar Adams Warehouse
- Crerar Adams Warehouse
1914 Railway Supplies Catalog
Chicago Tribune, February 6, 1929
PAYS $600,000 FOR FAIRBANKS AND ERIE CORNER
Lamp Concern Exercises Purchase Option.
By Al Chase
The Rembrandt Lamp corporation yesterday exercised an option to purchase the southwest corner of Erie street and Fairbanks court, improved with the seven story Rembrandt building, and paid the Shepherd estate $600,000 for the property. Title to the corner was taken by Louis Brosilow, Albert A. Witz, and William Markoff, officers of the Rembrandt Lamp corporation.
The property fronts 220 feet on Erie street and 109 feet on Fairbanks court.
On this corner is a seven story fireproof building, formerly occupied by the Cerar Adams company, fronting 100 feet on Fairbanks and 130 on Erie. The Rembrandt Lamp corporation leased the building on July 3, 1924, for fifteen years at a reported $40,000 annual rental. Edwin J. Bowes Jr. & Co., who negotiated the lease, also were brokers in yesterday’s sale. Cutting, Moore & Sidley and Joseph Edelson were attorneys.
- Remrandt Lamp Corporation Building
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map
1927
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