Continental Commercial National Bank
Life Span: 1911-Present
Location: Entire Block LaSalle, Adams, Quincy streets, and Fifth avenue (208 S. LaSalle)
Architect: D. H. Burnham and Co.
Excerpted from Chicago Tribune, January 15, 1911
The Continental Commercial National bank plans the erection of what is said will be the largest bank and office building in the world. It will cover the entire block bounced by LaSalle, Adams, Quincy streets, and Fifth avenue, and will represent an investment of approximately $10,000,000.
The building will have a ground area of 53,559 square feet, practically one and a quarter acres, will be at least twenty stories high, with a frontage of 165 feet on LaSalle street and Fifth avenue, 324.66 on Adams and Quincy streets and will cost $6,750,000.
An idea of its true magnitude may be gathering from the fact that including the space including the elevators, vaults, etc., it will have a total floor area of over twenty-five and a half acres.
Another interesting feature of the transaction is the large cost involved in the destruction of the buildings now on the land in order to make way for the proposed new structure. These comprise the old Continental National Bank building, fronting 165 feet on LaSalle street and 60 on Adams street; the Rand McNally building at 162-172 Adams street, and the McCormick building at Fifth avenue, Adams, and Quincy streets, all of which will approximate $1,000,000 in value.
- Continental National Bank
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map
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