Fort Dearborn Hotel,LaSalle Atrium Building
Life Span: 1914-Present
Location: 401 S. Lasalle, Southeast corner of Van Buren and La Salle streets
Architect: Holabird & Roche
Chicago Tribune, May 26, 1912
Big Hotel Project.
The LaSalle Hotel syndicate is behind the (Fort Dearborn) hotel project as released from Joseph D. Oliver, trustee of the James Oliver estate of South Bend, the ground, which fronts 101 feet in La Salle street, and 100 feet in Van Buren.
The lot is now occupied with a seven story and basement store and office building known as the Omaha building, the name having been given it at the time it belonged to former Congressman McShane of Omaha. It will be razed soon to make place for the hotel, which will be a fifteen story, steel construction fireproof building. It is expected to cost about $1,000,000 and the plans are now being prepared by Holabird & Roche.
Inter Ocean, March 22, 1914
NEW FORT DEARBORN HOTEL OPEN TO GUESTS TOMORROW
Hostelry Under Hotel Sherman Management Will Be Run on Moderate Price Policy.
The new Fort Dearborn hotel, West Van Buren and South La Salle streets, will be opened to guests tomorrow morning at 8 o’clock.
In the heart of the business district and directly across the street from the the La Salle street passenger station, the Fort Dearborn hotel, which is of the highest type of modern construction and substantially furnished, will fill a great need of Chicagoans and of the traveling public. The purpose of the hotel, which is owned and will be operated by the Hotel Sherman Company, is to furnish at a moderate price the comforts offered the wealthy by the “hotel de luxe.”
The hotel will be open all day. tomorrow to inspection by the public.
Chicago Tribune, March 21, 1914
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