Buckingham Building

	Buckingham Building
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Chicago, Illinois
Coordinates	41°52′36″N 87°37′30″W / 41.87667°N 87.62500°W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1929–30
Architect	Holabird & Root
Architectural style	Art Deco
NRHP reference No.	00000942
Added to NRHP	August 10, 2000

The Buckingham Building is a 27-story

Holabird and Root designed the building in the Art Deco style. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 10, 2000.^[1]

History

Construction plans for the Buckingham Building began in 1929. The building replaced an 1886 structure called the Athenaeum Building, a semi-public educational institution. As a result, the new building was called the New Athenaeum during its initial planning, though by 1929 it was known as the Buckingham Building. The building's office space opened to tenants in May 1930; its leasing agents promoted the space using both its proximity to

Standard Oil Company of New York in 1931 to become the Socony-Vacuum Company, and the consolidated firm rented increasingly more space in the building. By 1940, the firm renamed the building the Socony-Vacuum Building upon signing a ten-year lease to its office space. The building later became known by its street address. It still includes both retail and office space, though it is now only partially occupied.^[2]

Architecture

Chicago architects

aluminum. The twenty-second floor features decorative chocolate-colored terra cotta panels with a floral design, while the twenty-fifth floor has additional terra cotta decorations with a keystone motif.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b Baldwin, Susan M.; Jason D. Martin (November 3, 1999). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Buckingham Building" (PDF). National Park Service. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 6, 2016. Retrieved November 3, 2013.

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[NRHP_nom-2] Baldwin, Susan M.; Jason D. Martin (November 3, 1999). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Buckingham Building" (PDF). National Park Service. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 6, 2016. Retrieved November 3, 2013.

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