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An annual tradition, the Walnut Room at the State Street Marshall Field Building towers over the dining tables on the seventh floor.
4 photos stitched vertically.
If (and only if) you stay outside and can focus your eyes away from the awnings and window furnishings added by the building's current reoccupant, Field's flagship emporium looks much the same as ever. Don't be fooled, though: If the store wasn't classified as a historical landmark, those corner plaques would have disappeared faster than you can say "Strawbridge & Clothier."
Chicagoans are a bit antsy over Macy's rebranding exercises, to put it very mildly...
Geology preparator John B. Abbott excavating dinosaur femur, thigh bone of Antarctosaurus. 1924.
Name of Expedition: Captain Marshall Field Expedition for Vertebrate Paleontology
Participants: Elmer S. Riggs, George F. Sternberg, John B. Abbott, Jose Strucco, C. Harold Riggs
Expedition Start Date: 1922
Expedition End Date: 1925
Purpose or Aims: Geology Fossil Mammals that were probably distinct from other Northern Hemisphere Cenozoic fossils
Location: South America, Argentina, Buenos Aires
Original material: 5x7 inch glass negative
Digital Identifier: CSGEO48942
The Moon is Blue
Week Beginning Sunday, March 30, 1952
Harris Theatre
170 North Dearborn Street
Chicago, Illinois
The Burmham Fountain was designed in the 1890s and would have been an outdoor fountain, however the fountain was not built until 1992.
It was designed to be in what has Holden Court-an alley which bisected the Marshall Field's massive State Street Store. Because Holden Court bisected the store, shoppers had to go outside (or up several floors and over) to get from one half of the store to the other.
In 1992, Marshall Fields underwent a huge renovation that enclosed the space and created an 11 story atrium. The plans for the fountain were located and the fountain was built.
Circa 2006, Macy's took over Marshall Fields and despite some protests, to its credit Macy's has tried to maintain the State Street Store. In 2019, Macy's began a massive remodeling at the State Street Store. The Burnham Fountain was temporarily moved to the men's dress shirt department, as shown in this photo all decorated for Christmas.
"Shelter-in-place" orders have shuttered most department stores. With sales already declining because of on-line shopping, retail stores are in a perilous state. This comes at an ironic time for the Macy's State Street Store. Macy's was spending a bundle of money on renovating the store.
A more expansive view of the massive, 25 story, art deco style Merchandise Mart on Chicago's North side. Designed by the renowned Chicago firm of Graham, Anderson, Probst & White, and completed in 1930 the building served as a wholesale facility for Marshall Field & Company. This coincidentally reflected the site's use as a trading post early in Chicago's history. The Depression ultimately led Field to sell the building to the Kennedy family in 1945. The building still serves the home and design trades with specialty retailers on the first few floors and showrooms and offices on higher floors. The building is so large that it has its own Zip Code and El station.
The Evanston Galleria was built in 1929 as a Marshall Fields Department Store. It was one of the first Marshall Fields outside of downtown Chicago. The store closed in 1987. The building was then converted into retail and apartments.
The Marshall Field Annex Building (northwest corner of Wabash and Washington) was designed by Charles Atwood out of Daniel Burnham's architectural firm and opened in 1893. Marshall Field's is on the National Register of Historic Places #78001123, and is also a National Historic Landmark.
Marshall Field III bought the property in 1921 and had an estate house built in 1925, one of the largest estates of the Gold Coast mansions.Field named the property "Caumsett", after the Matinecock tribe's original name for the peninsula meaning "place by a sharp rock"
The Walnut Room, opened in 1907, is one of the largest of the Marshall Field & Company Tea Rooms and the setting is one of resplendent Tiffany domes.
CAPA-006273
Mailed from Brookfield, Illinois to Mrs. Nort Lapham of Battle Creek, Michigan on September 4, 1946:
Dear Lydia & Nort,
We got home last night. The chickens we got of you were grand also the corn. Ed said he had the best time to your house of any. We had a blow out on the way home, our tire was sure holy. Ed had to stop & put a spare on.
Love, Maude H.
Senora Mendez [Juan Mendez' mother] sitting next to table with lace table cloth and vase with flowers. Village Fuerte Quemado, Santa Maria, Catamarca. 1926.
Name of Expedition: 2nd Captain Marshall Field Paleontological Expedition
Participants: Elmer S. Riggs (Leader and Photographer), Robert C. Thorne (Collector), Rudolf Stahlecker (Collector), Felipe Mendez
Expedition Start Date: April 1926
Expedition End Date: November 1926
Purpose or Aims: Geology Fossil Collecting
Location: South America, Argentina, Catamarca
Original material: album print
Digital Identifier: CSGEO69349
No other retail establishment is, perhaps, as important to Chicago's cultural history as Marshall Field's department store. Originally a dry-goods shop begun by wealthy businessman Marshall Field, the store now occupies a full city block. Built in five stages at the company grew, the original building, a Renaissance Revival-style design by Charles B. Atwood of D.H. Burnham, still stands at Washington and Wabash.
Field is credited with transforming State Street into the retail heart of Chicago in the early 1900s and for giving the commercial credo "Give the lady what she wants." When the store opened in 1907, it was considered the largest in the world with 1,339,000 sq. feet of retail space, including the basement (such use was until then unheard of in US merchandisin), 27,000 automatic fire sprinklers, 50 elevators and 12 street-front entrances.
The store's most spectacular feature is ts Tiffany mosaic dome, believed to be the largest piece of glass mosaic in the world. With more than 1.6 million pieces of iridescent glass covering 6,000 sq. ft it took 18 months and 50 artisans, supervised by designer Louis Comfort Tiffany, to design.
The Marshall Field and Company Building was designated a landmark by the Chicago Department of Planning and Development on November 1, 2005.
National Register #78001123 (1978)
The toy department at Marshall Fields (Not Macy's :P) wasn't quite as cool as I would have liked, but it did have these awesome gigantic Harry Potter stuffed animals that were in the $1000+ range.
In 1928, this was the first suburban branch of Marshall Field's to open.
The Lake Forest Market Square is the America’s first planned shopping center in the country (and probably the first downtown urban renewal). The Market Square is an area of 25 shops and restaurants (including an old Marshall Field's) surrounding a park and culminating at the train station. It was designed by Howard Van Doren Shaw in 1916.
In the Lake Forest Historic District, on the National Register #78001161.
The theme for this year’s Macy’s Flower Show is “Carnival.” The display on the 9th floor allowed aerial views of the store.
Photograph taken with my new Olympus OM-D EM-10 Mark II. I will use this lightweight mirrorless camera when I don’t want to lug around my bulky E-5 and second and/third lenses.
Macy's store Fox River Mall Appleton Wisconsin. Originally opened as a Dayton's, later rebranded as Marshall Fields
The chain link fencing and orange barriers are the start of preparation for the demolition of this station, first built in 1895. The replacement, scheduled for completion in 2029, looks like a landlocked glass and steel spaceship. The pearl clutchers who think that, among other things, the platforms are too narrow, have spoken, and the CTA heard them.
The elevators to make it ADA accessible and for easy transfers to the Lake Red Line station without having to walk down stairs and up to half a block outside, and in the case of the westbound platform, having to cross Lake Street, (speeding delivery jerks on e-bikes don't care about red lights) are an excellent idea. The rest? Eh. And they shouldn't even bother with escalators, half of which are out of service on any given day.
The money would be better spent on the ever accumulating slow zones on the Forest Park Blue Line. West siders and Oak Parkers and other suburbanites who use that line had better speak up.