Morrison Hotel (Chicago)

Coordinates: 41°52′54″N 87°37′48″W / 41.8816°N 87.6301°W / 41.8816; -87.6301
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Morrison Hotel
Holabird & Roche
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The Morrison Hotel was a

Holabird & Roche and completed in 1925. The hotel was demolished in 1965 to make room for the First National Bank Building
(now Chase Tower).

The hotel was named for

Holabird & Roche further expanded it, adding a 46-story tower. The hotel had 1,800 rooms in 1931. A fourth, 21-story section was then added, bringing the number of rooms to 2,210, but was sold in 1937, becoming the Hotel Chicagoan; in the 1950s this was operated under lease by the Morrison. In 1952 a syndicate bought the Morrison and renovated it.[2][3][4]

The 1873 Morrison Hotel housed the Boston Oyster House in its basement.

on the hotel flagpole in 1927, despite losing six teeth when wind blew him into cables.[2][4]

In 1931, the

Air Line Pilots Association was founded in the hotel's ballroom.[5]

In June 1937, the hotel served as the location in which the Chicago Herald-Examiner kept the notorious murderer Robert Irwin sequestered while negotiating terms of his surrender to authorities in Manhattan.[6]

Standing 526 feet (160 m) high, the Morrison Hotel was the first building outside of New York City to have more than 40 floors,[1] and for thirty years was the world's tallest hotel.[2] At the time of its razing in 1965, it was the tallest building to have ever been demolished anywhere in the world.[1][2] At the time it was demolished, it was still the tallest hotel in Chicago.[7]

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Notes

  1. ^ a b c "Emporis building ID 102669". Emporis. Archived from the original on March 28, 2016.
  2. ^ a b c d e f UPI. "Midwestern Landmark To Vanish: Morrison Hotel In Chicago Ends Colorful History". Reading Eagle. November 13, 1964. p. 17.
  3. ISBN 9780738540412. pp. 50–51
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  4. ^ a b c d AP. "Chicago's Morrison Hotel Being Razed; Was Mecca For Famous Entertainers". The Gettysburg Times. May 6, 1965. p. 4.
  5. ISBN 0-9609708-1-9
    . Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  6. ^ The Mad Sculptor, Harold Schechter (c) 2014 New Harvest, p.248
  7. ^ "BANK WILL RAZE A CHICAGO HOTEL; Morrison to be Torn Down for New Loop Building". The New York Times. 20 February 1964. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
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