Spiegel Office Building

The Spiegel Office Building is a historic office building at 1038 W. 35th Street in the Bridgeport neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. It was built in 1936-37 as an office building for Spiegel Inc., a mail order company established in Chicago in 1865. The company built its new offices in the midst of a change in its goals and marketing, as it shifted from promoting its easy credit to offering higher-quality products to wealthier customers. The new office building allowed the company to consolidate several of its offices to improve efficiency and thus customer service. Engineers Battey & Kipp designed the Art Moderne style building, which had an industrial loft plan with open floors. In the 1940s, engineer Abraham Epstein placed an addition on the building, allowing the company to keep all of its offices in the building.[2]

Spiegel Office Building
Spiegel Office Building is located in Chicago metropolitan area
Spiegel Office Building
Spiegel Office Building is located in Illinois
Spiegel Office Building
Spiegel Office Building is located in the United States
Spiegel Office Building
Location1038 W. 35th St., Chicago, Illinois
Coordinates41°49′50″N 87°39′09″W
Arealess than one acre
Built1936 (1936)-37
ArchitectBattey & Kipp; A. Epstein & Sons
Architectural styleArt Moderne
NRHP reference No.09000025[1]
Added to NRHPFebruary 18, 2009

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 18, 2009.[1]

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. Johnson, Allen; Ramsey, Emily (July 21, 2008). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Spiegel Office Building" (PDF). Illinois Historic Preservation Division. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 19, 2019. Retrieved October 18, 2019.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.