Sears, Roebuck and Company Complex | |
 The former Sears Merchandise Building Tower, the sole surviving portion of the complex's Merchandise Building, as shown in 2006. | |
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| Location | 925 S. Homan Avenue, North Lawndale, Chicago, Illinois |
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| Coordinates | 41°52′10″N 87°42′42″W / 41.86944°N 87.71167°W |
| Area | 16 acres (6.5 ha)[1] |
| Built | 1905 |
| Built by | Thompson-Starrett Co. |
| Architect | Nimmons & Fellows |
| NRHP reference No. | 78001129 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | June 2, 1978[2] |
| Designated NHL | June 2, 1978[3] |
The Sears, Roebuck and Company Complex is a building complex in the community area of North Lawndale in Chicago, Illinois. The complex hosted most of department-store chain Sears' mail order operations between 1906 and 1993, and it also served as Sears' corporate headquarters until 1973, when the Sears Tower was completed. Of its original 40-acre (16 ha) complex, only three buildings survive and have been adaptively rehabilitated to other uses. The complex was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1978, at which time it still included the 3,000,000-square-foot (280,000 m2; 69-acre; 28 ha) mail order plant, the world's largest commercial building when it was completed.[1][3] That building has been demolished, its site taken up by the Homan Square redevelopment project.[4]
These core buildings occupy an area bounded on the north by West Arthington Street, the west by Central Park Avenue, the east by Spaulding Avenue, and the south by West Fillmore Street.
- ^ a b "NHL nomination for Sears, Roebuck and Company Complex". National Park Service. Retrieved April 24, 2017.
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
- ^ a b "Sears, Roebuck and Company Complex". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Archived from the original on June 6, 2011. Retrieved October 11, 2007.
- ^ "Sears, Roebuck and Company District" (PDF). City of Chicago. Retrieved April 24, 2017.