Railway Exchange Building

80 E. Jackson Blvd. and 224 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Illinois. County/parish: Cook.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places June 03, 1982. NRIS 82002530.

1 contributing building.

Also known as:

  • Santa Fe Building

From Wikipedia:

Railway Exchange Building (Chicago)

The Railway Exchange Building, also known as Santa Fe 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 Frederick P. Dinkelberg of D. H. Burnham & Company in the Chicago style. Dinkelberg was also the associate designer to Daniel Burnham for the Flatiron Building in New York City.

It opened in 1904 at 224 South Michigan Avenue.

The building is recognizable by the large "Motorola" 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.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892234

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