On Leong Merchants Association
- Architect
- Michealsen & Rognstad
- Year
- 1926
- City
- Chicago, IL
The On Leong Merchants Association building at 2216 S. Wentworth Avenue anchors Chicago's Chinatown, raised in 1926 by architects Michealsen & Rognstad for the On Leong Merchants Association, the neighborhood's dominant Chinese business and community organization. Its pagoda-topped facade gave Chinatown a landmark street presence it still holds today.
the building
Pagoda-topped facade. The building's defining move is the pagoda crown set atop its street front, an unmistakable marker along Wentworth Avenue that announced the On Leong Merchants Association's institutional standing to the whole neighborhood.
significance
The building carries individual Chicago Landmark status (L-159), designated December 1, 1993, recognizing it as a landmark institutional building of Chicago's Chinatown.
nearby
- White Castle # 16
- Chess Records Office and Studio
- Quinn Chapel
- Second Presbyterian Church
- Harriet F. Rees House
- Henry B Clarke House