McCarthy Building (Chicago, Illinois)
McCarthy Building | |
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General information | |
Location | 32 West Washington Street Chicago, Illinois United States |
Completed | 1872 |
Demolished | 1989 |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 5 |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | John M. Van Osdel |
McCarthy Building | |
Formerly listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
NRHP reference No. | 76000698 |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | June 16, 1976 |
Removed from NRHP | December 8, 1995 |
McCarthy Building was a five-story
Property history
The McCarthy building was on a piece of land owned by the McCarthy family for 100 years. It was bought by John Patrick McCarthy on May 1, 1847, and he built a home there for his family, which included six children. After the home burned in the Chicago fire of 1871, Mrs. McCarthy built a new home on a triangular tract of land farther south in Chicago, at Cottage Grove Ave. & 35th St., where Vincennes starts. Replacing the burned home was the five-story McCarthy building, which had a fireplace in every room. It had no elevator, but also no mortgage during the time the McCarthys owned it. From 1901 until at least 1947, the building was under lease to the Washington Shirt Co., which sublet the upper floors and two other street-level shops. The building was bought by a syndicate in 1946 for $550,000, the highest per-square-foot price—$180.92—in the neighborhood at that time.[5]
Revocation of landmark status
The revocation of the landmark status was a hotly contested legal battle. In Landmarks Preservation Council v. City of Chicago, (125 Ill. 2d 164 (1988)) the
22 West Washington
The long-delayed Block 37
See also
Notes
- ^ a b Roeder, David (January 17, 2006). "An Old Tradition: Do federal shenanigans lurk behind Berghoff". Chicago Sun-Times. FindArticles.
- ^ "Illinois - Chicago Core Architecture Map". PlanetWare Inc. 2007. Retrieved September 24, 2007.
- ^ "McCarthy Building, View". College of Architecture and the Arts-Slide Library. University of Illinois at Chicago. Retrieved September 24, 2007.
- ^ a b "Illinois Court Opinions: No. 2--05--". FindLaw. Retrieved September 24, 2007.
- ^ Chase, Al. Family Sells Property Held for 100 Years: Group Pays $550,000 to McCarthy Heirs Chicago Tribune, August 4, 1946.