Chicago Board of Trade Building
- Architect
- Holabird & Root
- Year
- 1930
- Style
- Art Deco
- City
- Chicago, IL
- Collection
- chicago deco
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The Chicago Board of Trade Building is a 44-story, 604-foot Art Deco skyscraper designed by Holabird & Root, completed in 1930 at the foot of the LaSalle Street canyon for the Chicago Board of Trade, which has occupied the site since 1885. It replaced an earlier William W. Boyington building from 1885 that had grown structurally unsound and was demolished in 1929, and it served as the CBOT's, then CME Group's, primary trading floor after the 2007 CBOT-CME merger.
the building
Tallest, twice over. Both buildings on this site have held the title of Chicago's tallest: Boyington's 1885 tower until its clock was removed in 1895, and Holabird & Root's 1930 replacement, which stood as the city's tallest building until the Richard J. Daley Center surpassed it in 1965.
Trading floors and stone carving. The building was built around large-scale commodity trading floors and is known for its Art Deco sculpture and large-scale stone carving, including an aluminum statue atop its pinnacle.
the style
The Board of Trade is one of Chicago's landmark Art Deco skyscrapers, built with extensive sculptural stone carving suited to its role as a civic-scaled monument to the commodities trade.
More on Art Decosignificance
The building is a National Historic Landmark, a Chicago Landmark (L-14), and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, designated a Chicago landmark on May 4, 1977. It served as the CBOT's trading floor and later the CME Group's after the 2007 merger, until CME sold the building in 2012 to a real estate consortium including GlenStar Properties and USAA Real Estate.
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