Reid, Murdoch & Co. Building
Life Span: 1913-Present
Location: Along Chicago River—321 N. La Salle to 321 N. Clark
Architect: George C. Nimmons
Chicago Tribune, February 23, 1913
The contract has been let for the new Reid, Murdoch & Co. building to occupy the north bank of the river from La Salle to Clark street. It will have a frontage of 320 feet on the river, 185 feet on La Salle street, and forty-two feet on Clark street. It will be nine stories high, of reinforced concrete construction, and will cost about $1,000,000.
It was designed by Architect George C. Nimmons, and it will have the unique distinction of being the first building along the river in which an attempt has been made in an architectural way to carry out the ideas of the Chicago plan. It is to be faced all around with deep red brick and dark brown terra cotta, and its attractiveness will be heightened by a tower 175 feet high. About sixteen feet above the dock, which will be of concrete and ten feet wide, will be a six foot balcony, which will extend from Clark street to La Salle, to afford an entrance to the building at any point and to be used as an elevated sidewalk by the public in going from Clark street to La Salle along the river.
Chicago Tribune, December 13, 1913
On the north bank of the river at Clark and La Salle streets a permit was taken out for Reid. Murdoch & Co.’s new wholesale grocery building to cost $800,000.
Western Architect, January, 1916
- The Reid-Murdoch warehouse was thrown open for the reception of the dead during the Eastland Disaster on July 24, 1915
- A view of the Reid, Murdoch building showing the 1929 widening of La Salle Street with the La Salle Street Bridge in the foreground.
- Reid, Murdoch & Co. Building
Ross & Browne Real Estate Map
1928
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