Santa Fe Building (Chicago)

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Railway Exchange Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Location:	224 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Coordinates:	41°52′42.10″N 87°37′28.58″W / 41.8783611, -87.6246056Coordinates: 41°52′42.10″N 87°37′28.58″W / 41.8783611, -87.6246056
Built/Founded:	1903–1904^[1]
Architect:	D. H. Burnham & Company F. P. Dinkelberg
Architectural style(s):	Chicago
Added to NRHP:	June 3, 1982
NRHP Reference#:	82002530
Governing body:	Private

The Santa Fe Building, also known as Railway Exchange Building, is a 17-story office building in the Historic Michigan Boulevard District of the Loop community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. It was designed by Charles B. Atwood of D. H. Burnham & Company in the Chicago style.

The building is recognizable by the large "Santa Fe" logo on the roof, which is visible from Grant Park across Michigan Ave and from Lake Michigan. It is also notable for the round, porthole-like windows along the cornice. The center of the building features a lightwell, which was covered with a skylight in the 1980s.^[2]

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The Santa Fe Building was originally built as a railway exchange for the Santa Fe railway. Burnham & Company had offices on the 14th floor.^[3] The building now houses the Chicago Architecture Foundation, VOA Associates and the Chicago offices of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.^[2]