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Marshall Field's Wholesale Store around 1890.
Marshall Field's Wholesale Store, Chicago, Illinois, sometimes referred to as the Marshall Field's Warehouse Store, was a landmark seven-story Henry Hobson Richardson-designed building.
[edit] Architecture
The building was commissioned in 1885 by legendary merchant Marshall Field. H.H. Richardson, known for his New York State Asylum in Buffalo, designed the exterior masonry piers and arches with interior framing of wood and iron. Intended for the wholesale business of Field's eponymously named department store, it opened in 1887 encompassing the block bounded by Quincy, Franklin, Adams and Wells Streets, near the location of the Chicago Board of Trade Building.
[edit] Closing
Marshall Field and Company closed the building in 1930 after the opening of the Merchandise Mart, then the world's largest building, which consolidated all company wholesale business under a single roof. The wholesale store was torn down shortly thereafter.
