Peoples Gas Building
- Architect
- Daniel Burnham
- Year
- 1911
- Style
- Beaux-Arts
- City
- Chicago, IL
The Peoples Gas Building at 122 South Michigan Avenue is a 265-foot, 21-story Beaux-Arts office tower built from 1910 to 1911 by D.H. Burnham & Company for the Peoples Gas Company. It anchors a stretch of Michigan Avenue that survives today as the Historic Michigan Boulevard District, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
the building
Later tenants. Since 1999 the building has housed National Louis University, and since November 2012 its sixteenth floor has held the chancery of the Philippine Consulate General in Chicago.
the style
The Peoples Gas Building's Beaux-Arts design suited its role in the Historic Michigan Boulevard District, one of the formal, classically detailed buildings that gave the avenue a unified street wall in the years around 1910.
More on Beaux-Artsthe architect
D.H. Burnham & Company, the firm led by Daniel Burnham, one of the most historically pivotal architects of Chicago's early skyscraper era, designed the building.
significance
The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 and is a contributing property to the Michigan Boulevard Historic District.
nearby
- Municipal Courts Building
- Chapin and Gore Building
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Symphony Center
- McClurg Building
- Palmer House Hotel