Reid, Murdoch and Company Building
- Architect
- George C. Nimmons
- Year
- 1914
- Style
- Chicago School
- City
- Chicago, IL
- Collection
- the chicago school
Completed in 1914 at 320 North Clark Street along the Chicago River, the Reid, Murdoch & Company Building was designed by architect George C. Nimmons as combined offices and a grocery warehouse for the food distributor Reid, Murdoch & Company. It's a Chicago Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
the building
Eastland disaster response. On July 24, 1915, after the excursion steamer SS Eastland capsized in the Chicago River directly across from the building, the Reid Murdoch Building was pressed into service as a makeshift hospital for victims.
A truncated facade. In 1930 the westernmost bay of the building was demolished to allow LaSalle Street to be widened, leaving the facade without its original symmetry.
the style
The building is an example of the Chicago School, the utilitarian, heavily glazed commercial idiom developed for the city's warehouses and office blocks around the turn of the century.
More on Chicago Schoolthe architect
George C. Nimmons was a Chicago architect known for industrial and warehouse commissions; the Reid Murdoch Building is among his notable River North works.
significance
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 and designated a Chicago Landmark on November 15, 1976, the building was used by the City of Chicago starting in 1955 for its traffic courts and State's Attorney's Office, then redeveloped by Friedman Properties in 1998.
nearby
- LaSalle-Wacker Building
- 77 West Wacker Drive
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