Buckingham Building
- Architect
- Holabird & Root
- Year
- 1930
- Style
- Art Deco
- City
- Chicago, IL
- Collection
- chicago deco
The Buckingham Building, a 27-story Art Deco tower at 59-67 E. Van Buren St., opened to tenants in May 1930 as mixed-use retail and office space designed by Holabird & Root. It replaced the 1886 Athenaeum Building and was briefly planned as the "New Athenaeum" before taking its current name.
the building
Site of the old Athenaeum. The tower rose on the site of the 1886 Athenaeum Building, a semi-public educational institution; the project was called the New Athenaeum during planning before being renamed the Buckingham Building by 1929.
the style
Holabird & Root designed the building in the Art Deco style that defined many of their Loop commissions at the end of the 1920s.
More on Art Decothe architect
Holabird & Root were a major Chicago firm; the Buckingham Building was among their late-1920s Loop office towers.
significance
The Buckingham Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 10, 2000.
nearby
- Fine Arts Building
- Chicago Club
- Auditorium Building
- 333 South Wabash
- Leiter II Building
- Railway Exchange Building