One Prudential Plaza

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One Prudential Plaza (formerly known as the Prudential Building) is a 44 story structure in Chicago completed in 1955 as the headquarters for Prudential's Mid-America company. At the time, the skyscraper was significant as the first new downtown skyscraper built in Chicago in 21 years (the last such building was the Field Building, now headquarters of LaSalle Bank, completed in 1934). It was the last building ever connected to the Chicago Tunnel Company's tunnel network.

When the Prudential was finished it had the highest roof in Chicago with only the statue of Ceres on the Chicago Board of Trade higher.

The architect was Naess & Murphy, a precursor to C.F. Murphy & Associates and later Murphy/Jahn Architects.

One Prudential Plaza, along with its sister property, Two Prudential Plaza, was sold in May 2006 for $470 million to BentleyForbes, a Los Angeles-based real estate investment firm, run by C. Frederick Wehba and his family.

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311 South Wacker Sears Tower Chicago Board of Trade 111 South Wacker AT&T_Corporate_Center CNA Plaza Chase Tower Three First National Plaza Mid-Continental Plaza Daley Center Chicago Title and Trust 77 West wacker Drive Pittsfield Building Leo Burnett Building The Heritage Smurfit-Stone Building IBM Plaza Buckingham Fountain Lake Michigan Lake Michigan Lake Michigan Jay Pritzker Pavilion One Prudential Plaza Two Prudential Plaza Aon Center Blue Cross Blue Shield Tower 340 on the Park Park Tower Olympia Centre 900 North Michigan John Hancock Center Water Tower Place Harbor Point The Parkshore North Pier Apartments Lake Point Tower

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  • "Dedicate New Prudential 41 Story Building," Chicago Tribune, December 9, 1955.

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