{"nrhp_refnum":"79000828","name":"Reebie Moving and Storage Company","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2325--2333 N. Clark St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.92455050600006,"lon":-87.63972289299994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-03-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national","state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A six-story, flat-roofed warehouse of reinforced concrete and brick at 2325 North Clark Street, Chicago, completed in 1923 for the Reebie moving and storage business. It is designed in a neoclassical Egyptian style with terra cotta sculpture on its street facade.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a unique example of neoclassical Egyptian architecture, notable for its terra cotta craftsmanship and for carrying the moving and security theme through both interior and exterior. The designs were created specifically for the Reebie brothers rather than copied. It is also tied to the Reebie family and to Fritz Albert, the North Western Terra Cotta Company sculptor who designed the decorative elements and hieroglyphs.","narrative":"Reebie Storage and Moving Company occupies 2325 North Clark Street in Chicago, a six-story warehouse of reinforced concrete and brick finished in 1923. Its street facade is clad in glazed white and polychrome terra cotta in an Egyptian revival manner, with lotus and papyrus columns, scarabs, plaques of the goddess Hathor, and two statues of Rameses II that stand for the founders, William and John Reebie. Hieroglyphs on the pedestals promise protection for customers' furniture. Inside, the office carries the same motifs in molded plaster, brass and iron, along with panels depicting sun and Nile barges. Fritz Albert, a sculptor with the North Western Terra Cotta Company, designed the decorative elements. The building is considered significant because the designs were created for the Reebie brothers rather than copied, and because the moving and security theme runs through the whole building. The original cornice was removed in 1971 after lightning damage, but the rest of the appearance remains largely as in 1923.","period_of_significance":"1900- (completed 1923)","architect_builder":"George S. Kingsley","architectural_style":"Neoclassical Egyptian","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as good, altered; the cornice was removed in 1971 and the building is occupied and still used as a moving and storage business. Vandalism to exterior terra cotta is noted.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.597338-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/81/8924/28892481/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/79000828.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000828/2dc671552a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79000828/2dc671552a-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"t3xt (talk)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reebie_Storage_building_during_feb_2_2011_storm.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">t3xt (talk)</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reebie_Storage_building_during_feb_2_2011_storm.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892481","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reebie_Storage_Warehouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7306557"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/reebie-moving-and-storage-company-79000828/"}