One North LaSalle Building
- Architect
- Karl M. Vitzthum & Co. with John Burns
- Year
- 1929
- Style
- Art Deco
- City
- Chicago, IL
- Collection
- chicago deco
Karl M. Vitzthum & Co., working with John Burns, designed this Art Deco tower on the site of Holabird & Roche's earlier Tacoma Building, completing it in 1929. At 530 feet and 48 stories, it ranked among Chicago's tallest buildings for decades, standing across Madison Street from the Roanoke Building.
the building
Replacing the Tacoma. The tower rose on the footprint of the Tacoma Building, an earlier Holabird & Roche design, clearing one landmark of early skyscraper construction to make room for this one.
La Salle's explorations, carved. Relief panels on the fifth floor depict the explorations of René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, the French explorer for whom LaSalle Street is named.
the style
Vitzthum & Burns cast the tower in Art Deco, giving the LaSalle Street financial corridor one of its fuller expressions of the style amid its older Gothic and Beaux-Arts neighbors.
More on Art Decothe architect
Karl M. Vitzthum & Co. designed the building together with John Burns, completing it in 1929.
significance
Long counted among Chicago's tallest buildings—by some measures the fourth tallest for roughly 35 years, depending on how the Board of Trade Building's rooftop statue is counted—the tower was designated a Chicago Landmark on April 16, 1996, and added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 22, 1999.
nearby
- Chicago Stock Exchange Building
- American National Bank Building
- Roanoke Building and Tower
- Chicago Loop Synagogue
- Central YMCA Headquarters
- 19 South LaSalle Street