The Lakeside Press Building is a historic commercial building located at 731 S. Plymouth Ct. in downtown
Chicago
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Illinois
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. The building served as a showroom, office, and printing press for the
Lakeside Press. The building was built in two stages; the southern half was completed in 1897, while the northern half was finished in 1901. Architect
Howard Van Doren Shaw
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designed the building, his first design of a commercial building. Shaw's design features
limestone
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quoins,
pier
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s, and decorations,
curtain walls with
cast iron
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spandrel
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s on the floors housing the printing presses, and a projecting
cornice.
The building was added to the
National Register of Historic Places
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on June 23, 1976.
In 1985 the building was converted to residential use, and was purchased by
Columbia College Chicago in 1993 as its first residence hall. Columbia sold the building in 2017 for $20 million, and continued leasing it through the 2018–19 academic year.
See also
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R.R. Donnelley and Sons Co. Calumet Plant
References
Chicago school architecture in Illinois
Commercial buildings completed in 1897
Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Chicago
Howard Van Doren Shaw buildings
Columbia College Chicago
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