Carson Pirie Scott & Co. store

Chicago, Illinois, United States
Also known as: Schlesinger-Mayer department store

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architecture

  • James Paine and Robert Adam: Kedleston Hall
    In Western architecture: Construction in iron and glass

    …the Schlesinger-Mayer Department Store (later Carson Pirie Scott) in Chicago (1898–1904), in which the towered corner marked the climax of the logic of the steel frame and the entrance was made inviting with rich, naturalistic ornament. At the very end of the 19th century, the important emblem of modern commerce…

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design by Sullivan

  • Print of the Carson Pirie Scott & Co. department store, Chicago, c. 1907.
    In Chicago School

    …and Root, 1891), and the Carson Pirie Scott & Co. store (originally the Schlesinger-Mayer department store; Sullivan, 1898–1904). Chicago, because of this informal school, has been called the “birthplace of modern architecture.”

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  • Louis Sullivan
    In Louis Sullivan: Later work of Louis Sullivan

    …store in Chicago, occupied by Carson Pirie Scott & Co. from 1904 to 2007. Two connecting units were built between 1899 and 1904, and a third unit was added in 1906 by Daniel H. Burnham and Co., largely following Sullivan’s original design. In contrast to the vertical emphasis of the…

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