{"nrhp_refnum":"89002025","name":"Rothschild, A. M., & Company Store","other_names":["Davis Store","Goldblatt's Store"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"333 S. State St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.87743252800004,"lon":-87.62563317299998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-11-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A ten-story steel-frame department store at 333 South State Street in Chicago, built in 1912 as the A.M. Rothschild & Company store and designed by Holabird & Roche. It is clad in white glazed terra cotta and later known as the Davis Store and Goldblatt's Building.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is a remarkably intact example of Chicago School commercial design combined with Beaux-Arts ornament from the era of Burnham's 1909 Plan of Chicago. It is the only full-block department store designed by Holabird & Roche. It also illustrates the history of State Street retailing and changes in Chicago retail across the twentieth century.","narrative":"Ten stories tall and filling half a city block at 333 South State Street, this Chicago department store was completed in 1912 for A.M. Rothschild & Company. Holabird & Roche designed it with a steel frame and a skin of buff glazed terra cotta made by the Northwestern Terra Cotta Company. Arched openings mark the two main retail floors, while the upper stories use wide Chicago windows between terra cotta piers. Classical details such as scroll brackets, dentils and Rothschild's \"R\" medallions reflect Beaux-Arts influence. Marshall Field & Company bought the store in 1923 and ran it as the Davis Store, and Goldblatt Brothers took it over in 1936, operating it until 1981. The nomination values it as a very intact work by Holabird & Roche, their only full-block department store, and as an example of the shift from pure Chicago School design toward historical ornament. It also records State Street's role as Chicago's retail center. The building is now vacant and city-owned.","period_of_significance":"1912","architect_builder":"Holabird, William, and Roche, Martin (Holabird & Roche)","architectural_style":"Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Movements/Chicago; Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals/Beaux-Arts","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Described as in an excellent state of preservation, virtually intact, but presently vacant and owned by the City of Chicago, which bought it for library use and intends to sell it for re-use.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:35.967747-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/55/8919/28891955/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/89002025.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002025/edab9585cd-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002025/edab9585cd-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM)","credit_html":"TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20080703_A._M._Rothschild_%26_Company_Store.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/28891955","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._M._Rothschild_%26_Company_Store","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q48848390"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/rothschild-a-m-and-company-store-89002025/"}