Lakeside Press Building

United States historic place


Lakeside Press Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


41°52′21″N 87°37′42″W / 41.87250°N 87.62833°W / 41.87250; -87.62833
Area	1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built	1897 (1897), 1901 (1901)
Architect	Shaw, Howard Van Doren
Architectural style	Chicago
NRHP reference No.	76000694^[1]
Added to NRHP	June 23, 1976

The Lakeside Press Building is a historic commercial building located at 731 S. Plymouth Ct. in downtown Chicago, Illinois. 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 designed the building, his first design of a commercial building. Shaw's design features limestone quoins, piers, and decorations, curtain walls with cast iron spandrels on the floors housing the printing presses, and a projecting cornice.^[2]

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 23, 1976.^[1]

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,^[3]^[4] and continued leasing it through the 2018–19 academic year.^[5]

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^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Westfall, Carroll William (November 22, 1975). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Lakeside Press Building" (PDF). National Park Service. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 19, 2014. Retrieved June 26, 2013.
^ "Lakeside Press Building to be Adaptively Reused". Preservation Chicago. Retrieved September 11, 2019.
^ Gallun, Alby (September 5, 2017). "Columbia College puts Printers Row dorm up for sale". Crain's Chicago Business. Retrieved September 11, 2019.
^ Portalatin, Ariana (July 19, 2018). "3L Real Estate purchases Plymouth dorm for $20 million". The Columbia Chronicle. Retrieved September 11, 2019.