International Tailoring Company Building
- Architect
- Mundie & Jensen
- Style
- Renaissance Revival
- City
- Chicago, IL
The International Tailoring Company Building, also known as the White Tower Building, rose at 847 W. Jackson Boulevard in 1915-1916 with a substantial addition in 1922, designed by Mundie & Jensen. It was built for the International Tailoring Company, founded in 1896 by Jacob L. Reiss (1874-1955), one of a handful of Chicago firms that built massive garment factories from the 1890s onward.
the building
A model factory. Where sweatshops of the era were dirty, cramped, dark and unsafe, Mundie & Jensen's design gave the International Tailoring Company a clean, spacious plant flooded with natural light and built with worker comfort and safety in mind.
the style
The ten-story building is executed in Renaissance Revival architecture, dressing a working garment factory in the kind of formal facade more often seen on downtown office buildings.
More on Renaissance Revivalsignificance
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 18, 2008. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago later used it for exhibit space, and as of 2005 it was being converted into residential condominiums.
nearby
- Old St. Patrick's Church
- (Former) Mid-City Trust & Savings Bank Buildings
- Hull House
- Union Station
- Jennie Foley Building
- Old Chicago Main Post Office Building