Silversmith Hotel
- Architect
- Peter Joseph Weber
- Style
- Chicago School
- City
- Chicago, IL
- Collection
- the chicago school
The Silversmith Hotel occupies the 1896 Silversmith Building in downtown Chicago, designed by Peter J. Weber of D.H. Burnham and Company — the firm that also designed the Fisher Building. The design marks the transition from Romanesque Revival to Chicago School architecture.
the style
The Silversmith Building sits at the hinge between Romanesque Revival and Chicago School design, reflecting the moment Chicago's commercial buildings were moving from historicist masonry toward the leaner, more repetitive bay structure of the Chicago School.
More on Chicago Schoolthe architect
Peter J. Weber designed the building in 1896 while working for D.H. Burnham and Company, the same firm behind Chicago's Fisher Building.
significance
The Silversmith Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997, and the hotel joined the National Registry of Historic Hotels of America in 2016.
nearby
- Carson Pirie Scott & Company Building
- Jewelers Building
- Gage Group
- Palmer House Hotel
- Sullivan Center
- Chicago Building