National Historic Landmark · department store · Chicago, Illinois

Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company

Commercial building in Chicago, Illinois. Added to the National Register in 1970, and a National Historic Landmark.

Has a visitor websiteNational Historic LandmarkListed 1970Louis Sullivan
2010-03-03 1888x2832 chicago sullivan center with heyworth buildingBaluster from the Schlesinger and Mayer Store (later Carson Pirie Scott), by George Grant Elmslie, 1899-1904, cast iron - Chazen Museum of Art - DSC02458Carson Pirie Scott building during renovations in 2007Carson Pirie Scott Building on Lincoln's 100th Birthday
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What it is

Wikipedia · Sullivan Center

The Sullivan Center, formerly known as the Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building or Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Store, is a commercial building at 1 South State Street at the corner of East Madison Street in Chicago, Illinois. Louis Sullivan designed it for the retail firm Schlesinger & Mayer in 1899 and later expanded it before H. G. Selfridge & Co. purchased the structure in 1904. That firm occupied the structure for only a matter of weeks before it sold the building to Otto Young, who then leased it to Carson Pirie Scott for $7,000 per month, which occupied the building for more than a century until 2006. Subsequent additions were completed by Daniel Burnham in 1906 and Holabird & Root in 1961.

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The record

National Register of Historic Places
Property typeBuilding
Address1 S. State St., Chicago, IL
CountyCook County
ListedApr 17, 1970
Reference number70000231
ArchitectLouis Sullivan
Type of placedepartment store, building complex
DesignationsNational Historic Landmark, Chicago Landmark
Contributing resources1 buildings

The nomination form, the document that argues why this place matters, is in the National Archives: Read the nomination ↗

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Address1 S. State St., Chicago, IL
Websitethesullivancenter.com ↗
Coordinates41.88175, -87.62760 · Directions ↗
Nearest national park unitPullman National Historical Park · 13 mi · on Park Atlas
Federal campgrounds nearbyWest Beach Picnic Shelters 28 mi · Chellberg Farm Picnic Shelters 33 mi · Dunbar Group Site 35 mi
Listing on the Register does not open the door. Unless a museum or park runs it, treat this as private property and see it from the sidewalk.

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Location, dates, type and contributing counts come from the National Park Service's National Register spatial data. Construction date, architect, style, photograph and encyclopedia link come from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, matched on reference number 70000231. Nothing here is transcribed by hand. The description under "What it is" is the opening of the Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA.