{"nrhp_refnum":"83000308","name":"Calumet Plant, R. R. Donnelly & Sons Company","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"350 E. 22nd St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.85369550100006,"lon":-87.61805238999995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-02-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"An eight-story reinforced concrete printing plant with a fourteen-story southeast corner tower, at 350 East 22nd Street on Chicago's South Side, built in four sections between 1912 and 1929 for R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the plant is a distinctive example of industrial and corporate design from 1910 to 1930 and one of few industrial or commercial buildings by Chicago architect Howard Van Doren Shaw. Philadelphia architect Charles Z. Klauder, known for Gothic buildings, completed the design after Shaw's death. It also reflects the Donnelley family's use of architecture to project the image of a leading Chicago printing firm.","narrative":"Rising eight stories, with a fourteen-story corner tower, this red brick and Indiana limestone printing plant occupies a full block beside the Illinois Central tracks on Chicago's South Side. Built in four sections between 1912 and 1929, it contains about 1,100,000 square feet of reinforced concrete construction. Gothic details include tapered piers resembling buttresses, arched limestone-trimmed windows, stone medallions of printers' marks and colorful terra cotta plaques. Howard Van Doren Shaw designed the north and east sections and prepared plans for the rest before dying in 1926. Charles Z. Klauder then supervised the south and west sections and the tower in 1929. Inside, the lobby, eighth-floor gallery and a two-story Gothic memorial library express the company's view of printing as an art. The building was listed for its architecture, as a rare industrial work by Shaw completed by Klauder, and for its role in presenting the Donnelley firm's corporate image.","period_of_significance":"1912-1929","architect_builder":"Howard Van Doren Shaw (1912-1926); Charles Z. Klauder (1929)","architectural_style":"Industrial design with Gothic detailing","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Occupied and in industrial use; described as in excellent condition with exceptional integrity, altered by a 1951 ninth-floor addition, signage, loading docks and some interior remodelling.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:34.580814-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/48/8922/28892248/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/83000308.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000308/f824af3c98-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000308/f824af3c98-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Andrew Jameson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Calumet_Plant_R_R_Donnelly_and_Sons_Company_A_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:Calumet_Plant_R_R_Donnelly_and_Sons_Company_A_Chicago_IL.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892248","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.R._Donnelley_and_Sons_Co._Calumet_Plant","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7273403"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/calumet-plant-r-r-donnelly-and-sons-company-83000308/"}