London Guarantee Building
- Architect
- Alfred S. Alschuler
- Year
- 1922
- Style
- Beaux-Arts
- City
- Chicago, IL
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The London Guarantee Building is a 1923 commercial skyscraper at 360 N. Michigan Avenue, designed by Chicago architect Alfred S. Alschuler for the London Guarantee & Accident Company, an insurance firm that was its principal early tenant. It rises on part of the former site of Fort Dearborn and is one of four historic 1920s towers ringing the Michigan Avenue Bridge, alongside the Wrigley Building, Tribune Tower, and 333 North Michigan Avenue.
the building
A borrowed crown. The building's top is often said to resemble the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates in Athens, but Alschuler in fact modeled it on Stockholm's City Hall, the Stockholm Stadshus.
the style
Alschuler worked in a neoclassical, Beaux-Arts vein typical of the Michigan Avenue skyscrapers built around the river bridge in the 1920s, pairing a classical base and crown with a modern office tower between them.
More on Beaux-Artssignificance
Designated a Chicago Landmark on April 16, 1996, the building is also a contributing property to the Michigan-Wacker Historic District. Once known as the Stone Container Building for a past tenant, it has operated since 2016 as the LondonHouse Chicago Hotel.
nearby
- Mather Tower
- 333 North Michigan Building
- Chicago Motor Club Building
- Old Republic Building
- Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist
- Carbide and Carbon Building