19 South LaSalle Street

Skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois April 2025 April 2025 19 South LaSalle Street Central YMCA Association Building 20120929 19 South LaSalle.JPG Chicago#Illinois#USA Mixed-use Cloverfield, Inc. Vivid Ascent, et al. Chicago, Illinois 19 S. LaSalle St. 1893 16 stories Jenney & Mundie www.colmgmt.com/ 19 South LaSalle Street, formerly known as the Central YMCA Association Building, is a building in downtown Chicago, Illinois. It was constructed in 1893 and designed by the architecture firm Jenney & Mundie. History 19 South LaSalle Street was constructed as the Central YMCA Association Building in 1893,Sinkevitch, Alice and the American Institute of Architects (Chicago). AIA Guide to Chicago, (Google Books link), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, p. 80, (0156029081). and completed shortly before the Panic of 1893.Hudson, Leslie A. Chicago Skyscrapers in Vintage Postcards, (Google Books link), Arcadia Publishing, 2004, p. 101, (0738533424). It also housed the Central YMCA College starting in 1961.Chicago Evening Post Building https://chicagology.com/skyscrapers/skyscrapers015 / The structure, designed by William LeBaron Jenney and William Bryce Mundie as Jenney & Mundie, was eventually renamed for its address, 19 South LaSalle Street.Randall, Frank Alfred and Randall, John. History of the Development of Building Construction in Chicago, (Google Books link), University of Illinois Press, 1999, pp. 155-56, (0252024168). Modern-day 19 South LaSalle Street is owned by Cloverfield, Inc. and operated by Colonnade Management, Inc. as a mixed-use retail and office building."", retrieved January 20, 2012. Law offices and companies such as Vivid Ascent, an integrated marketing firm, and Sprint, which has a retail location in the building, operate out of 19 South LaSalle Street."About Us https://web.archive.org/web/20120113015236/http://vividascent.com/about-us.php 2012-01-13 ", Vivid Ascent, official site, retrieved January 20, 2012."Contact Us", Jeffery M. Leving, Ltd., official site, retrieved January 20, 2012.Sprintstorelocator.com, Chicago searchMarch 2019 InternetArchiveBot yes , Sprint, official site, retrieved January 20, 2012. Architecture 19 South LaSalle Street has been described as one of Jenney's most "uncompromising" facades due to its rectangularity which is only interrupted by horizontal banding at the 11th and 12th stories.Condit, Carl W. The Chicago School of Architecture: A History of Commercial and Public Building in the Chicago Area, 1875-1925, (Google Books link), University of Chicago Press, 1973, p. 93, (0226114554).19 South LaSalle https://www.19southlasalle.com/ Although, the horizontal courses and the building's shifting design are typical of Jenney's work around this time period. 19 South LaSalle is designed in an "L" shape with its more narrow 54 foot facade facing toward LaSalle Street while a longer, more elaborate 187 foot facade faces a small alley known as Arcade Place. The building stands 16 stories and was originally topped with a peaked roof which was replaced by an additional three stories. 19 South LaSalle Street was mentioned in the 2004 American Institute of Architects Guide to Chicago. References External links 19 South LaSalle, St. Andrews Properties, Inc, official site 41 52 53 N 87 37 55 W title region:US-IL_source:GNIS Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1893 Category:Skyscraper office buildings in Chicago Category:Chicago school architecture in Illinois Category:1893 establishments in Illinois