333 North Michigan

333 North Michigan

General information
Status	Complete
Type	Skyscraper
Architectural style	Art Deco
Location	333 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois
Country	United States
Coordinates	41°53′17″N 87°37′27″W / 41.8880°N 87.6242°W / 41.8880; -87.6242Coordinates: 41°53′17″N 87°37′27″W / 41.8880°N 87.6242°W / 41.8880; -87.6242
Construction started	1927
Completed	1928
Height
Roof	396 feet (121 m)
Technical details
Floor count	34
Design and construction
Architect	Holabird & Roche/Holabird & Root

Chicago Landmark
Designated	February 7, 1997
References
^[1]

Magnificent Mile looking south
(Red dot marks 333 North Michigan)

333 North Michigan is an Art Deco skyscraper located in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois in the United States. Architecturally, it is noted for its dramatic upper-level setbacks that were inspired by the 1923 skyscraper zoning laws. Geographically, it is known as one of the four 1920s flanks of the Michigan Avenue Bridge (along with the Wrigley Building, Tribune Tower and the London Guarantee Building) that are contributing properties to the Michigan–Wacker Historic District, which is a U.S. Registered Historic District.^[2]^[3]

Additionally, it is known as the geographic beneficiary of the jog in Michigan Avenue, which makes it visible along the Magnificent Mile as the building that seems to be in the middle of the road at the foot of this stretch of road (pictured at left).^[2]^[4] The building was designed by Holabird & Roche/Holabird & Root and completed in 1928.^[2] It is 396 feet (120.7 m) tall, and has 34 storeys.

It was designated a Chicago Landmark on February 7, 1997.^[2] It is located on the short quarter mile stretch of Michigan Avenue between the Chicago Landmark Historic Michigan Boulevard District and the Magnificent Mile.

Designed by John Wellborn Root, Jr., the building's long and narrow footprint and towering structure are a tribute to Root's father, John Wellborn Root's earlier Chicago Monadnock Building, Louis Sullivan's tall-building canon and Eliel Saarinen second-prize entry in the Tribune Tower design contest.^[5]^[6]^[7] The building was such a success that Holabird and Root took commercial residence there. The building's long and slender design optimized use of natural lighting. The building's interior represents Prohibition era modernism, especially its Art Deco Tavern club.^[6]

The building is embellished by a polished marble base, ornamental bands, and reliefs depicting frontiersmen and Native Americans at Fort Dearborn, which partially occupied the site.^[7]

Tenants

The Blackhawks Store is located on the street level of Michigan Avenue.

Fannie May is located on the street level of Michigan Avenue and Wacker Drive.

The Consulate-General of Pakistan in Chicago is in Suite 728.^[8]

Psychemedics Corporation, the world's leading drug testing company using hair to detect drugs of abuse, is located in Suite 1026.

Gallery

333 North Michigan
Carbide & Carbon Building behind 333 North Michigan
333 North Michigan, 360 North Michigan, Mather Tower and 35 East Wacker
333 North Michigan Chicago Landmark plaque
Michigan Avenue Bridge traffic (Background includes 333 North Michigan, Carbide & Carbon Building, London Guarantee Building, Mather Tower & 35 East Wacker
ca 1951
From Illinois Central Railroad freight yard, the current Lakeshore East (April 1943)

Notes

↑ 333 North Michigan at Emporis
1 2 3 4 "333 North Michigan Building". City of Chicago Dept. of Pl. and Devpmt., Landmarks Div. 2003. Archived from the original on 28 May 2007. Retrieved 2007-05-19.
↑ Staff (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ "333 North Michigan". Emporis. 2007. Retrieved 2007-05-19.
↑ Alice Sinkevitch, Laurie McGovern Petersen, ed. (2004). AIA Guide to Chicago (2 ed.). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 29. ISBN 0156029081.
1 2 Pridmore, Jay and George A. Larson (2005). "From Arts and Crafts to Art Deco". Chicago Architecture and Design. Harry N. Abrams, Inc. ISBN 0-8109-5892-9.
1 2 Sinkevitch, Alice, ed. (2004). "The Loop: 333 N. Michigan Ave.". AIA Guide to Chicago (2nd ed.). Harcourt, Inc. p. 29. ISBN 0-15-602908-1.
↑ "Chicago Consulate." Embassy of Pakistan in the United States. Retrieved on December 16, 2009.

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See also	Washington Block

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