The Trude Building was a 19th-century
skyscraper
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that was located in Chicago. It was designed by
Jenney & Mundie and was constructed in 1897 for
A. S. Trude. It was demolished in 1912 in order clear way for an expansion of the
Marshall Field and Company Building. This considered to have been one of the first demolitions, if not the first, of a skyscraper.
Building details
A. S. Trude had the building constructed in 1897. It was designed by the firm
Jenney & Mundie.
It stood between either fourteen or sixteen stories tall.
[ The site had previously been occupied by a six-story building that had been lost to a fire.]Randolph Street
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. It was located on a site long along its Wabash Avenue face and long along its Randolph Street face.headquarters
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of Lord & Thomas, a notable advertising agency
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.Social Democratic Party of America
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Etymology
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was headquartered in the building,[''The Social Democrat'' erre Haute v. 4, no. 13 (July 1, 1897), p. 1.] as was ''The Social Democrat'' newspaper.
Sale to Marshall Field and demolition
Marshall Field & Co. acquired the building and its land in a ninety-nine year lease agreement that saw them agree to pay Trude an annual rent of $60,000 for ninety-nine years, beginning in July 1911. At the time, the Cook County Board of Review The Cook County Board of Review is an independent office created by statute by the Illinois General Assembly and is governed by three commissioners who are elected by district for two- or four-year terms. Cook County, which includes Chicago, is the ...
evaluated the building at $125,000 and its land at $597,630, making the property worth $722,630. The lease permitted Marshall Field & Co. to, at any time before August 1, 1919, replace the building with a new high-grade "fireproof" building so long as it cost no less than $750,000.Marshall Field and Company Building
The Marshall Field and Company Building is a department store building and National Historic Landmark on State Street (Chicago), State Street in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It was designed in the Beaux-Arts architecture, Beaux-Arts and C ...
. This is considered to have been one of the first demolitions, if not the first, of a skyscraper.[. Retrieved August 20, 2006.]
Steel columns from the former Trude Building were reutilized in the construction of the Bosch Building, a loft building in Chicago.
References
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Demolished buildings and structures in Chicago
Former skyscrapers
1897 establishments in Illinois
1912 disestablishments in the United States