London Guarantee Building

London Guarantee Building
The London Guarantee Building entrance commemorates Fort Dearborn at top
Location	360 North Michigan Avenue Chicago, Illinois
Built	1923
Architect	Alfred S. Alschuler

Chicago Landmark
Designated	April 16, 1996


Location of London Guarantee Building in Chicago metropolitan area

The London Guarantee Building, formerly known as the Stone Container Building,^[1] is a historic building located in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. It is known as one of the four 1920s flanks of the Michigan Avenue Bridge (along with the Wrigley Building, Tribune Tower and 333 North Michigan Avenue). It stands on part of the former site of Fort Dearborn. It was designated a Chicago Landmark on April 16, 1996.^[2]

In 2001, the building was acquired by Crain Communications Inc. and is now referred to as the Crain Communications Building.

The top of the building resembles the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates in Athens, but it is supposedly modelled after the Stockholm Stadshus.^[3] It is located in the Michigan–Wacker Historic District. The building stands on the property formerly occupied by the Hoyt Building from 1872 until 1921.^[4]

From the 1960s through the 1980s, the studios of Chicago's popular WLS (AM) radio were located on the fifth floor of the building.^[5] For several decades, Paul Harvey performed his daily syndicated radio show from studios on the fourth floor.

In the 1980s and 1990s TV show Perfect Strangers, the building's exterior was used as the home of the fictional newspaper Chicago Chronicle.^{[citation needed]}

Gallery

Rotunda ceiling
333 North Michigan, 360 North Michigan, Mather Tower and 35 East Wacker
360 North Michigan, Mather Tower and 35 East Wacker
Michigan Avenue Bridge traffic (Background includes 333 North Michigan, Carbide & Carbon Building, London Guarantee Building, Mather Tower & 35 East Wacker
ca 1951

Notes

^ J. Linn Allen. "Not that Stone Container Building, this one-got it?" Chicago Tribune. February 23, 1993. 1.
^ "London Guarantee Building". City of Chicago Dept. of Pl. and Devpmt., Landmarks Div. 2003. Retrieved 2007-05-19.
^ "London Guarantee Building". Emporis. 2007. Retrieved 2007-05-19.
^ Mayer, Harold M. and Richard C. Wade (1969). Chicago: Growth of a Metropolis. University of Chicago Press.
^ www.radiotimeline.com/am89wls.htm. 5.

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Chicago Landmark skyscrapers with 12 or more floors	300 West Adams Building The Arc at Old Colony Auditorium Building Brooks Building Bryn Mawr Apartment Hotel Chicago Building Gage Group Buildings Heyworth Building Hilliard Towers Apartments Inland Steel Building Manhattan Building Marquette Building Marshall Field and Company Building Monadnock Building Mundelein College Skyscraper Building New York Life Insurance Building Reliance Building Rookery Building Sullivan Center
See also	Architecture Art Deco Chicago City Hall Chicago School Washington Block
Buildings in italics have been demolished.

v t e Chicago Landmark skyscrapers
National Historic Landmark, National Register of Historic Places, Chicago Landmark	The Arc at Old Colony Auditorium Building Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building Chicago Board of Trade Building Fisher Building Manhattan Building Marquette Building Marshall Field and Company Building Monadnock Building Reliance Building Rookery Building
National Register of Historic Places, Chicago Landmark	860–880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments Gage Group Buildings Mundelein College Skyscraper Building One North LaSalle Palmolive Building The Blackstone Hotel Roanoke Building and Tower
Chicago Landmark	330 North Wabash 333 North Michigan 35 East Wacker Allerton Hotel Brooks Building Bryn Mawr Apartment Hotel Carbide & Carbon Building Chicago Building Civic Opera House Heyworth Building Inland Steel Building London Guarantee Building Mather Tower New York Life Insurance Building The Palmer House Hilton Powhatan Apartments Pittsfield Building Richard J. Daley Center Tribune Tower Virgin Hotels Chicago
See also	Washington Block

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