The weight units entering into the superstructure. Before, how ever, the structural details of the foundation can be definitely determined, it becomes necessary to carefully and accurately compute When an engineer has made his computations and prepared the details for the foundation of a building, it may be said that the most important part of his labor has been accomplished. In 1965, this was demolished to make way for First National Plaza (now called Chase Tower).Įxcerpted from Journal of the Western Society of Engineers, October, 1904 Some of the contracts have already been awarded.įrom 1903-1965, the First National Bank Building occupied the site. The exterior of the new building will be of granite, the exact hue not having yet been decided upon, but it will either be of gray or yellow shade. Burnham & Co., who have prepared all the plans, will hasten the work as much as possible. No definite date is set for the completion of the section occupied by the Montauk, but it is hoped to have it finished by May of next year, when the bank will move in and the work of tearing down its present building, at the corner of Dearborn and Madison, will be commenced.
The First National Bank has made peace with the last of the tailor tenants in the Montauk block, and the work of tearing down the building, to make way for the first section of the bank’s proposed policy $3,000,000 building, will be begun immediately. Here Burnham & Root, the architects, had their offices while they built the Rookery. It has resisted two hot fires on its western wall. Erected in 1882, at a cost of $325,000 considered the first tall steel building (skyscraper) in Chicago. It has 150 offices, 300 occupants, and 2 passenger elevators. It is 130 feet (40 m) high, in 10 stories, of steel construction, on heavy foundations, with thick walls. The Montauk Building, at 115 Monroe Street, has a frontage of 90 feet (27 m) and a depth of 180 feet (55 m). Rand, McNally & Co.’s Bird’s Eye Views Guide to Chicago, 1890 It was built o the site of the Chicago Museum. The Montauk Building was the first major commercial building developed by the architectural firm of Burnham & Root.
Peter and Shepard Brooks were developers of a few buildings in Chicago.
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