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1950's. A new Walgreens still sits at this corner. This Walgreens was demolished and new Walgreens is on the bottom floor of a new high rise.
The back of this postcard reads.... "Busy Chicagoans relax at the popular air conditioned Oak Room at Walgreens. On the right is the famous Marshall Field's clock." Down to right of Walgreens is the former International Trailways Bus Terminal.
Wreaths and lights adorn Stanley Field Hall inside Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History
The Field Museum opening in 1894 and was originally thought of as a permanent memorial for the 1893 Wolrld’s Fair and Colombian Exhibition
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Recognized as a National Historic Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The old Marshall Field building.
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Opened in 1907 in the Marshall Field’s (now Macy's) department store, The Walnut Room is one of Chicago's most beloved landmarks. You can still sit by the 17-foot marble fountain, amid the original Circassian Walnut paneling and Austrian chandeliers and enjoy a traditional potpie made from Mrs. Hering's (who was a clerk at the store back in the early 1900s) original recipe.
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According to legend, Marshall Field decided that the corner of the store bearing his name should have a clock after he discovered notes wedged in the corners of the store’s new glass plate windows that pinpointed times and places to meet friends, family members and business associates. Field determined that a clock could serve as a rendezvous spot for shoppers and also make them mindful of the time. It didn’t take long for the Chicago Tribune to report that women in Chicago were telling others to “meet me under the clock at Marshall Field’s!”
The original clock was hung at the State & Washington corner of the store in 1897. As a result of the clock’s soaring popularity, a second clock was added at the corner of State & Randolph Streets in 1902. For five years the designs of the clocks didn’t match, but in 1907, the original clock was replaced with the one pictured here which is identical to the second clock. This iconic Chicago landmark was designed by Pierce Anderson and is made of 7¾ tons of cast bronze which hangs from ornamental ironwork.
(from "The Fascinating History of Macy's on State Street in Chicago")
Scanned from Kodak Tri-X 400
(Shot at ISO 160 with Yellow Filter)
Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL
January 2022
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The former flagship Marshall Field and Company Building on State Street in The Loop of downtown Chicago. Marshall Field’s, whose origin traces back to a dry goods store opened at 137 Lake Street in Chicago in 1852 by Potter Palmer, grew to become a major chain before and was ultimately acquired by Macy’s in 2005.
The store shown above opened in September 1907, it included a Tiffany Ceiling that is both the first and largest ceiling ever built in favrile glass, containing over 1.6 million pieces. With completion of the building, Marshall Field's momentarily claimed the title of "world's largest department store" over John Wanamaker & Co. in Philadelphia and R.H. Macy & Co. in New York.
A huge American flag currently hangs in the 13-story skylit atrium.
The scene is Chicago and the clock is one of a pair of 8-ton bronze timepieces on the famous Marshall Field & Co. department store. There has been a power failure, so now each clock has to be reset manually. The repairman uses his own pocket watch to set the time. (Lot of detail in this painting. Notice the bird nest in the scrollwork.)
Times change and Marshall Field’s is a thing of the past. Today, the building is home to Macy’s, but the clocks remain and are still called the Marshall Field’s clocks. Macy’s doesn’t seem to mind.
Taken with my phone and uploaded onto Flickr using wifi. More of my phone pictures from this trip are on Instagram - which uploads a great deal faster than Flickr. There is also a camera version of this image - using a self timer and long exposure by placing it on a advertising case. It is posted below
Tiffany mosaic dome, circa 1907, Marshall Field's (Macys), Chicago. Made of 1.6m pieces of favrile glass
The former flagship Marshall Field and Company Building location on State Street in the Loop of downtown Chicago was officially renamed Macy's on State Street on September 9, 2006.
When the original Marshall Field building opened in 1907, it included a stunning Louis Comfort Tiffany, decorated ceiling that is both the first and largest ceiling ever built in favrile glass, containing over 1.6 million pieces.
The Marshall Field and Company Building at State and Washington Streets in Chicago was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 and is part of the Loop Retail National Historic District. The building was designated a Chicago Landmark on November 1, 2005. At two million square feet of available floor space, the building is the second-largest department store in the United States.
Other famous parts of the building include exterior clocks, which have existed since the building was constructed.
The State Street Marshall Field's / Macy's Department Store Christmas windows are a bit muted for 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has taken most of the holiday shoppers online rather than the downtown stores
A view of one Chicago's most famous early skyscrapers from under the Great Clock of the former Marshall Field & Company Store on the corner of State and Washington St.
The 202-foot tall Reliance Building was completed in 1895, and its steel and glass design is representative of the "Chicago School" of architecture. Construction occurred in two stages, with the first floor and basement designed by John Root of Chicago's Burnham and Root architectural firm in 1890, and the upper floors t of the building completed by Charles B. Atwood in 1895.
The first tenant in 1891 was Carson Pirie Scott & Company who, in 1903, moved to their own landmark Carson Pirie Scott Store one block south at State and Madison St. In the decades after Carson's moved, the building was occupied by an array of merchants and professionals.
Both the exterior and interior of the Reliance Building was restored between 1995 and 1999, and the building re-opened in 1999 as the Hotel Burnham. The skyscraper lies within the Loop Retail Historic District and is a Chicago Landmark. It is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976.
The iconic Great Clock of the former Marshall Field & Company flagship store (now Macy's) is seen at the top of this view. The clock was installed in 1907, replacing the first clock installed ten years earlier. A second and less famous Great Clock at the State and Randolph St. corner of the store was hung in 1904. Each of the clocks weigh 7-3/4 tons and are hung by ornamental ironwork. The Marshall Field & Company building is a National Historic Landmark.
These Caumsett Farm buildings were designed by Alfred Hopkins for Marshall Field III's complex at Lloyd Harbor.
In 1921, Marshall Field III - American investment banker, publisher, racehorse owner/breeder, philanthropist, and heir to the multimillion dollar Marshall Field department store fortune - purchased 1,750 acres of Lloyd Neck to create one large estate. He named the land after its Matinecock Indian name, Caumsett, which means "place by a sharp rock."
The Caumsett Barns were the crowning center piece of the utilitarian complex known as the Farm Group. This area, comprised of dairy barns, a bottling plant, garages, workshops, homes and offices, was the primary “engine” of the Marshall Field Estate. Read more about the dairy and its prized Guernsey cattle here.
Lloyd Harbor is well-known for its Gold Coast estates as immortalized in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Prior to Caumsett belonging to the Field family, it was owned by the Lloyds who give their name to Lloyd Harbor.
In 1654, the Matinecock Native Americans sold 3,000 acres (12 km2) of what is now called Lloyd Neck to English settlers from Oyster Bay. In 1676, James Lloyd acquired the neck, which was then taken over by his son Henry. Henry Lloyd farmed the land and erected a house, which still survives in Caumsett State Park. After his death in 1763, his son Joseph built the Joseph Lloyd Manor House, which he was forced to abandon by the British during the Revolutionary War. The British built several fortifications in the neck, including Fort Franklin. Henry Lloyd IV was the last Lloyd to own the estate, in 1841. In the 1880s, it became a stop for steamboats coming from New York City, bringing tourists and wealthy New Yorkers.
See also this link for a great photo history of the Caumsett Estate.
Pedestrians walk under the famous clock at Macy's (formerly Marshall Fields) on State street, Chicago, IL.
Marshall Field's Building. Chicago, IL. Photo by John Lishamer Photography (www.johnlishamer.com) All Rights Reserved. Nikon F3. Nikkor 135mm f2.8 ais. Fujifilm Neopan 400 @800 (expired). Rodinal 1:50.
Scanned from Ilford Delta 400
(expired from Mar 2003, shot at ISO 100)
Chicago, IL
January 2021
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Chicago Loop. This clock was installed in 1897 on the southwest corner of the building. Marshall Field installed it as a beacon for people to meet who were visiting the Loop.
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One of the city's most iconic images is the nearly six-story-high marquee that flashes above this 1921 movie palace, the first of its kind in the United States. Talk about grand: The façade of the French Baroque style building boasts a terra cotta replica of the Arc de Triomphe; the elegant lobby is modelled after the Royal Chapel at the Palace of Versailles, and the auditorium itself seats 3,600. Though it's no longer a movie house, the gorgeously restarted theatre lives on as a venue for live music and events.
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A fifth-floor view of the Tiffany & Co. favrile glass ceiling in what was once Marshall Field's flagship store in downtown Chicago.
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The open-air River Oaks Center opened on October 3, 1966, and was developed by KLC Ventures, a partnership between Philip M. Klutznick and his son Tom. The elder Klutznick had developed Park Forest, Illinois, after World War II, as well as Oakbrook Center in Oak Brook in 1959 and Old Orchard Shopping Center in Skokie in 1956.
River Oaks originally opened with one minor and two major department stores. The original anchors were Marshall Field's, (275,000- ft2), Sears (347,000 ft2), and a branch of the Hammond, IN based Edward C. Minas Company (56,000 ft2). JMB Real Estate Group would soon acquire the mall along with most of the Klutznick properties, including Old Orchard.
Edward C. Minas became Carson's on October 6, 1982. and JCPenney moved their store to the mall from downtown Hammond, IN in 1985, opening on October 2nd alongside a mall expansion. In March 1993, the mall owners announced that River Oaks was to be enclosed and the new modern mall opened for business in September 1994.
Oakbrook, Illinois-based JMB Urban Properties and the Indianapolis-based Simon Property Group established a joint venture ownership deal involving four Chicagoland malls; River Oaks Center, Hawthorn Center, Fox Valley Center, and Orland Square mall
In November 1997, this arrangement terminated with Simon assuming 100 percent ownership of River Oaks and Orland Square, and JMB Urban keeping full control of Fox Valley and Hawthorn Center.
River Oaks was amongst several C-D tier malls that Simon would spin off into Washington Prime Group, who would later unload the mall. The property is currently owned by Namdar. Calumet City has gone through a massive demographic change since the mall was enclosed and looks a little worse for the wear, as do the massive and vacant big boxes around it.
The State Street Marshall Field's / Macy's Department Store Christmas windows are a bit muted for 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has taken most of the holiday shoppers online rather than the downtown stores
The Oakland Mall opened in 1968. The original anchor stores were Sears and Hudson's. Another wing with JCPenney was added in 1979. Hudson's became Marshall Field's in 2001 and Macy's in 2006. The Oakland Mall is a fairly large mall at 1,500,000 square feet.
Oakland Mall - West 14 Mile Road and Interstate 75 - Troy, Michigan
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