Marshall Field's Wholesale Store
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| Marshall Field's Wholesale Store | |
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 Marshall Field's Wholesale Store, around 1910 | |
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| General information | |
| Opened | 1887 |
| Demolished | 1930 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Henry Hobson Richardson |
Marshall Field's Wholesale Store, Chicago, Illinois, sometimes referred to as the Marshall Field's Warehouse Store, was a landmark seven-story building designed by Henry Hobson Richardson.[1] Intended for the wholesale business of Field's eponymously named department store, it opened on June 20, 1887,[2] encompassing the block bounded by Quincy, Franklin, Adams and Wells Streets, near the location of the Chicago Board of Trade Building.
Architecture
The building was commissioned in 1885 by legendary merchant
palazzo
. The exterior design, in which the windows were contained by massive Romanesque arches, gave the impression of having four levels, but in fact there were seven floors and a sunken basement. The large arches allowed for thinner structural members between them and greater window space than if the windows were set into the solid masonry.
Marshall Field and Company closed the building in 1930 after the opening of the Merchandise Mart, then the world's largest building, which consolidated all company wholesale business under a single roof. The wholesale store was torn down later in that same year.[1]
See also
- Henry Hobson Richardson
- Palazzo style architecture
- American architecture
- Louis Sullivan
References
- ^ a b "Fabulous Era of Prairie Av. Yields To Time". Chicago Tribune. January 24, 1951.
- ^ "The Story of a House". Glessner House Museum. 13 April 2015. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
