[Enlarge] [Purchase] (c) Rick Bronson

 

[Enlarge] [Purchase] (c) Daniel Kieköwer

 

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Identification
Official name	Pittsfield Building
Emporis Building Number	117063
Location
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Bordering street #1	East Washington Street*
Bordering street #2	North Wabash Avenue*
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Zone	Jewelers' Row Landmark District
Neighborhood	Loop
District	Downtown
City	Chicago
State	Illinois
Country	U.S.A.

 

Technical Data
Height (tip) * Height (struct.) 168 m 551 ft Height (roof) * Height (top floor) * Length (max) * Width (max) * Floors (OG) 38 Floors (UG) * Floor overview * Construction start * Construction end 1927 Height Floor-to-floor * Height Floor-to-ceiling * Elevators * Costs at completion *

 

Building in General
Type of construction	high-rise building
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Status	completed

Facts

-	The lobby leads into a five-story public atrium with several stores inside.
-	Developed by the estate of Marshall Field, the famous retail baron whose department store is across the corner to the northwest.
-	Named after Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where Marshall Field got his first job. (See also the Burnham Center, which was originally named after Field's birthplace).
-	The building was owned by the Field Museum of Natural History from the time of its 50th anniversary when Marshall Field III gave the property as a gift, until September 1960 when the museum sold it.

Companies involved in this Building*

architect: Graham, Anderson, Probst & White Other firms: Estate of Marshall Field , Henry Ericsson and Co. , William Braeger, Otis Elevator Co..

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