Brooks Building
- Architect
- Holabird & Roche
- Year
- 1910
- Style
- Chicago School
- City
- Chicago, IL
- Collection
- the chicago school
The Brooks Building, at 233 W Jackson Blvd in the Loop, was commissioned by Peter Brooks and Shepard Brooks and designed by Holabird & Roche, built in 1909-1910 in the Chicago School style. It is an early example of the steel-framed high-rise that defined the city's commercial core.
the building
Early steel frame. The Brooks Building is counted among the early examples of steel-framed high-rise construction in Chicago's commercial core, built at the height of the Chicago School's development of the technique.
the style
The Brooks Building was designed in the Chicago School style, the idiom built on steel-frame construction that Holabird & Roche and their contemporaries developed for the Loop's commercial towers.
More on Chicago Schoolsignificance
The Brooks Building was designated a Chicago Landmark on January 14, 1997. It was found eligible for the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 but was never formally listed, at the wish of the property's owner.
nearby
- Willis Tower
- Continental And Commercial National Bank Building
- Chicago Board of Trade Building
- 300 West Adams Street Office Building
- Rookery Building
- Phenix Building