place

Otis Elevator Company Factory Building

Colonial Revival architecture in IllinoisCook County, Illinois Registered Historic Place stubsIndustrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in ChicagoIndustrial buildings completed in 1900Otis Worldwide
Otis Elevator Company Factory Building Chicago IL
Otis Elevator Company Factory Building Chicago IL

The Otis Elevator Company Factory Building is a historic industrial building located at 1435 W. 15th Street in the Near West Side neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The Otis Elevator Company had the factory built in 1900. The company, then the nation's largest elevator manufacturer, sought to grow its sales in Chicago, as the city's growth and numerous new skyscrapers made it a profitable market for elevators. The Chicago firm of Adler & Treat designed the factory as a brick building with Colonial Revival elements. The factory served as a regional headquarters until 1914, when Otis restructured and introduced smaller regional offices; while it continued to have a Chicago office, it sold the factory building. The Riley-Schubert-Grossman Company, a wholesaling firm, purchased the building in 1916; while it only occupied the building for a short time, its extensive remodeling gave it its present-day layout.The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 26, 2008.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Otis Elevator Company Factory Building (License: CC BY-SA 3.0, Authors, Images).

Otis Elevator Company Factory Building
West 15th Street, Chicago Near West Side

Geographical coordinates (GPS) Address Nearby Places
placeShow on map

Wikipedia: Otis Elevator Company Factory BuildingContinue reading on Wikipedia

Geographical coordinates (GPS)

Latitude Longitude
N 41.861388888889 ° E -87.662222222222 °
placeShow on map

Address

Common Addams

West 15th Street 1407
60608 Chicago, Near West Side
Illinois, United States
mapOpen on Google Maps

Otis Elevator Company Factory Building Chicago IL
Otis Elevator Company Factory Building Chicago IL
Share experience

Nearby Places

Church of St. Vitus (Chicago)

St. Vitus's Church Complex was a former late-nineteenth-century Roman Catholic church located in Pilsen, Chicago, Illinois at 1814 South Paulina Street, and corner of 18th Street. The church itself was closed in 1990 and the rectory and remaining space adaptively reused as the Guadalupano Family Center, a daycare and cultural center thereafter. The complex contained a 4,500-square-foot (420 m2) church (1896–1897), rectory (1898), and parish school (1902). The complex was closed 1990. The National Trust for Historic Preservation profiled the structure as a good example of adaptive reuse: "A community task force collaborated with area interfaith organizations to develop a non-profit community development corporation called The Resurrection Project. This group was organized to specifically focus on developing and overseeing uses for the complex, as well as developing numerous low-income and affordable housing units and residences in the area." The church was renovated 1992-1996 as a "state-of-the-art day care facility was designed for the former parochial school, and plans are underway for a cultural center in the now hollow sanctuary space that was destroyed by a fire….The Resurrection Project operates one of the most active community reinvestment programs in the area from the [church]," costing $1.2 million for conversion of school and $400,000, anticipated repairs to church.Its location in a Latino neighborhood enabled its large number of parishioners to work with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago to explore reuse options with a team of architects, urban planners, historic preservationists, low-income housing specialists, commercial developers, and educators to create Guadalupano Family Center, a day care and cultural activity center. Opened in 1994, the child care facility "that operates on a sliding scale fee, serving the population of 6,000 children between 3 and 12 years of age living within 1/2 mile of the center. The center also employs a staff of 22 teachers."