Lakeside Press Building
- Architect
- Howard Van Doren Shaw
- Year
- 1897
- City
- Chicago, IL
The Lakeside Press Building at 731 S. Plymouth Ct. in the Loop was built in two stages — the southern half in 1897, the northern half in 1901 — to house the showroom, offices, and printing presses of the Lakeside Press. It was architect Howard Van Doren Shaw's first commercial design, an early test of his eye for detail applied to an industrial building.
the building
Limestone and cast iron. Shaw dressed the building in limestone quoins, piers, and decorative trim under a projecting cornice, while the floors that housed the printing presses used curtain walls carried on cast-iron spandrels — a lighter structural system suited to heavy machinery and the need for daylight on the press floors.
the architect
Howard Van Doren Shaw was a noted Chicago architect; the Lakeside Press Building, begun in 1897, was his first commercial commission.
significance
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 23, 1976. The building left the printing business in 1985 for residential conversion, and Columbia College Chicago bought it in 1993 as its first residence hall before selling it in 2017 for $20 million.
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