![]() I heard that Amos and Andy came out of Chicago. ![]() Ronald Wiggin When I worked there in 1969, I found out that all the radio studios had been torn out replaced by giant color TV studios. 2nd largest building in America in floor space. In 1998 the Kennedy's sold it for over 450 million. Sold it in 1945 to Joseph Kennedy for 17 million, 13 million than the original cost. It was supposed to be a wearhouse for his department stores, but it was built around the great depression. ![]() Michael Durkin The Merchandise Mart has 4 million square feet of floor space while the Pentagon has 6.5 million square feet.Īna Guera Built in 1930 by Graham, Anderson, Probst, and White. Garry Buzard Wasn't the Merch Mart the largest office building in the USA until the Pentagon was built? The Merchandise Mart under construction, seen from the Lake Street Bridge in 1929. Leonard Lelko Largest building in the world at one time. The columns ate into the striped space set apart for the car so parking could be tricky if the person in the space next to you parked weird. There'd be a column, then 2 parking spaces, another column and another 2 parking spaces, and so on. Massive support columns were evenly spaced throughout the entire "floor". The exterior did not stay clean for long!Įileen Priest Worked there in the 1990's and had assigned parking in the 2nd lower level of the underground parking area. ![]() Merchandise Mart under construction as of December 30, 1929. Sharon Avendano shared a David M Laz post The Kinzie Street RR bridge is on the left by the cold storage building.Įvidently each Christmas Season they used to light it up with additional lights because I came across these photos for 1953 (note the tree in the middle), 1954 (note the Lindbergh light on the old Palmolive building), and 1967 (note the religion neutral "PEACE ON EARTH").įlying Carpet promotion for floor covering show. But the thing that caught my eye is that you can see how the land is still industrial west of the building and how the tracks go under the road and building. The 1931 date for completion must be wrong, because it looks done in this August, 1930 photo. Posted by Bill Weiss and Uraiwan Dutkiewicz, 1929Īerial photo of the Merch Mart, August 1930. My motivation for writing this posting now is that I came across some construction photos (mmart) The bridge to this station was a bottleneck, so C&NW wanted to build a new station west of the river anyhow. As a side effect, it help beautify the river front by hiding the rail yards. To get the two blocks it needed in a downtown location, it was erected on the air-rights of the C&NW railroad yards. The Merchandise Mart has everything you need to create a beautiful home whilst getting any of your daily activities done – a truly incredible place to take in.I know of it as the building that displaced the C&NW Wells Street passenger station. This area includes apparel shops, beauty services, bookstores and newsstands, financial services, telecommunication services, travel services, specialty food and wine stores, photo services, a dry cleaner, shoe shine stand, a food court, and both a USPS and FedEx location. In addition to being a resource for architects and decorators, the Mart also features a retail shopping area called The Shops at the Mart. Several stores offer items for purchase, while others offer design services, preservation, renovation, or installation. Unlike stores with traditional displays, entire designed rooms are created, thereby providing consumers with an opportunity to compare form and function, while defining and refining their personal style aesthetic. Select showrooms are open only to wholesalers, with others accessible to the general public. The “showroom” concept remains, as manufacturers and distributors rent showrooms on about half of the floors of The Mart today. Targeting consumers, designers, and department store buyers, The Mart attracts every sort of professional and retail buyer to the building. Since the mid-1940’s, showrooms in The Merchandise Mart have displayed almost every kind of product produced.
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