Edison Shop, Knabe-Edison Warerooms (1922)
Life Span: 1914-1967
Location: 229 Wabash, south of Adams street
Architect: Purcellm Feick & Elmslie, George M. Niedecken, Interior Architect
- Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, 1914
Edison Shop 229 S Wabash av
Western Architect, May, 1913
- Edison Shop Exterior
- Edison Shop First Floor, Looking from and toward Entrance
- Edison Shop Second Floor, Looking toward Entrance and Booths in Rear
- Edison Shop First and Second Floor Plans and Terra Cotta Details.
- Edison Shop Concert Room.
Chicago Tribune, February 11, 1968
Another landmark building (designated in 1959), the Edison Shop, 229 S. Wabash av., was taken down a few months ago without any notice, said Will Hasbrouck, executive director of the local chapter of A. I. A. “We should be alerted thru the building department every time a permit is requested for demolition of a landmark building,” he said.
It is not that there is no longer any interest in landmark buildings. In fact, a new commission is being formed which will have legal power to prevent demolition of certain structures.
- Edison Shop
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map
1927
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