{"nrhp_refnum":"79000823","name":"Chapin and Gore Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"63 E. Adams St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.87932518000008,"lon":-87.62541064299995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-06-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Engineering","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"An eight-story commercial loft and warehouse building at 63 East Adams Street in the Loop district of Chicago, Illinois, built in 1904-1905 and designed by Richard Ernest Schmidt (Schmidt, Garden & Martin) for the wine and spirits firm Chapin & Gore.","why_significant":"The nomination holds that the building is highly representative of the Chicago School and one of the finest examples of the \"Sullivanesque\" commercial aesthetic in Chicago. Its terra cotta detailing and facade proportions are of exceptional quality, and the fenestration expresses the interior function. It also has an early use of wood piles and cantilevered footings.","narrative":"Eight stories tall and built in 1904-1905, this commercial building at 63 East Adams Street in Chicago's Loop was designed by Richard Ernest Schmidt for the liquor firm Chapin & Gore. It originally held a bar and sales room on the ground floor, warehouse space on the second and third floors, and loft floors above. Its structure combines masonry bearing walls with cast iron columns and timber posts, set on wood piles and cantilevered footings that the nomination calls an early example. The Adams Street facade is the only decorated elevation, with soft brown face brick, terra cotta mouldings and granite framing. Its tiers of base and upper bays openly show the uses inside, an idea drawn from Louis Sullivan. The cornice and pier capitals were removed in 1959, and the storefronts have been changed, yet the nomination still ranks it among the best Sullivanesque commercial buildings remaining in Chicago.","period_of_significance":"1900- (specific dates 1904-1905)","architect_builder":"Richard Ernest Schmidt (1865-1959); form also credits the firm's work with Hugh M.G. Garden","architectural_style":"Chicago School / \"Sullivanesque\" commercial","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as good and altered; occupied. The original cornice and terra cotta pier capitals were removed in 1959 and the ground-floor storefronts were altered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.878859-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/78/8923/28892378/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/79000823.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000823/188b690815-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000823/188b690815-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Jack Boucher","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chapin_%26_Gore_Building,_63_East_Adams_Street,_Chicago_(Cook_County,_Illinois).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jack Boucher</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chapin_%26_Gore_Building,_63_East_Adams_Street,_Chicago_(Cook_County,_Illinois).jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"98001351","name":"Loop Retail Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/illinois/loop-retail-historic-district-98001351/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892378","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapin_and_Gore_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5073178"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/chapin-and-gore-building-79000823/"}