The Feds began tearing down a vacant three-story building on South State Street this week, sandwiched between two century-old skyscrapers that could be next.
Fencing blocks the sidewalks at the Consumers Building, left, 220 S. State St., and the Century Building, 202 S. State St., as preparation for demolition work continues for the three-story building between the two skyscrapers on April 17, 2023.
Legislators approved a $52 million earmark last year to tear down the vacant Century and Consumers buildings in the 200 block of South State Street, which the government acquired in 2007 as a security buffer and potential federal office expansion behind the adjacent Dirksen U.S. Courthouse.The steel-framed, terra cotta skyscrapers, decaying monuments to the Chicago School of Architecture, have topped Preservation Chicago’s annual list of thefor two years running.
“Any building coming into preliminary landmark status is given all the protections of a designated landmark as it works its way through the process,” said Ward Miller, executive director of Preservation Chicago. Completed in 1915, the 16-story Century Building at 202 S. State St. was designed by Holabird & Roche, a pioneering Chicago architecture firm that built a number of prominent commercial high-rises. The 22-story Consumers Building at 220 S. State St. was completed in 1913 and designed by Jenney, Mundie & Jensen. Lead architect William Le Baron Jenney is credited as building the first modern skyscraper, the nearby Home Insurance Building, in 1885.
The razing of the three-story building formally began on Sunday and will cost nearly $3.2 million, which is part of the $52 million appropriation, the GSA said Tuesday.
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