Carson, Pirie & Scott
Standing at the important address of 1 South State Street, the Carson, Pirie, Scott & Company Building is not unlike Sullivan himself -- providential and a mass of contradictions. Modern and ancient, urban and reflecting nature, massive and delicately intimate, comforting and foreboding.
Built in 1899 as the Schlesinger & Mayer Department Store, it housed Carson, Pirie & Scott until 2006 when the store closed. Word is that it will now become a Target, Chicago's first in The Loop.
The building has been stripped of much of its original detail through the years, but an amazing amount has survived.
Now referred to as the Sullivan Center, it has managed to survive various attempts at "modernization" or demolition.
Perhaps my favorite detail is the LHS -- Louis Henri Sullivan -- signature.
Labels: architecture, Chicago, department stores, Louis Sullivan
posted by Ladrón de Basura (a.k.a. Junk Thief) @ 4:11 PM
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Ah department stores.i remember my mother taking us to Dayton's in mpls. Most would think of The Mall of America as the Minn p
Dayton's had zome kind of for the sales people three lights on the wall and dings too. The escalators were scarey.
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