{"nrhp_refnum":"09000025","name":"Spiegel Office Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1038 W. 35th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.83135032300004,"lon":-87.65203889299994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-02-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Industry"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A six-story Art Moderne office building at 1038 West 35th Street in Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood, within the original east tract of the Central Manufacturing District. It was built in two phases: a two-story structure in 1936 and a four-story addition in 1941-42.","why_significant":"It is locally significant under Criterion A for its link to Spiegel, Inc., a nationally known mail order company, and to the Central Manufacturing District, an early planned industrial development. Under Criterion C, it is a well-preserved Art Moderne industrial loft building using flat slab construction. It was the last building completed for Spiegel in the district and consolidated the company's scattered offices.","narrative":"Located at 1038 West 35th Street in Chicago, this six-story brick and reinforced concrete building was erected for Spiegel, Inc., a mail order company founded in the city in 1865. The engineering firm Battey & Kipp designed the first two floors in 1936, and A. Epstein & Sons added four more in 1941-42, extending the corner stair towers and matching the original materials. Its Art Moderne design features brick spandrels, banks of steel multi-light windows and glass block towers, in contrast to the traditional red brick industrial buildings nearby. The open floors, supported by flared concrete columns, housed clerical work, mail opening and credit processing, and consolidated company offices that had been spread among several warehouses. It is one of only three remaining Spiegel-built structures in the Central Manufacturing District. It was recognized for its connection to the company's growth and for its well-preserved flat slab loft construction, despite replaced windows and a rebuilt west wall.","period_of_significance":"1936-1958","architect_builder":"Battey & Kipp, A. Epstein & Sons","architectural_style":"Art Moderne","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Current function is listed as office building; the form notes Spiegel later used its West 35th Street buildings as a distribution facility. The west wall was rebuilt after the adjacent warehouse was demolished in the 1990s.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.379617-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/16/8924/28892416/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/09000025.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000025/0e996c49f1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000025/0e996c49f1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Andrew Jameson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spiegel_Office_Building_Chicago_IL.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Andrew Jameson</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spiegel_Office_Building_Chicago_IL.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"12000040","name":"Chicago Park Boulevard System Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/illinois/chicago-park-boulevard-system-historic-district-12000040/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892416","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiegel_Office_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65504955"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/spiegel-office-building-09000025/"}