{"nrhp_refnum":"93000841","name":"Mandel Brothers Warehouse Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3254 N. Halsted St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chicago","county":"Cook County","state":"IL","lat":41.94178828100007,"lon":-87.64954662199995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-08-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick warehouse and barn at 3254 North Halsted Street, Chicago, built in 1903 and designed by Holabird and Roche for the Mandel Brothers Department Store.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is a high-style example of a warehouse, with Renaissance Revival features and detailed polychromatic brickwork that set it apart from the plainer industrial buildings of the period. It was integral to one of Chicago's most prominent department stores and is a fine example of work by the firm Holabird and Roche. It meets Criterion C for architecture.","narrative":"Built in 1903 at 3254 North Halsted Street in Chicago, this two-story brick building served as a barn and distribution warehouse for the Mandel Brothers Department Store. Holabird and Roche designed it with a timber frame, limestone foundation, and facades of deep red and pink brick arranged in alternating bands, quoined corners, and a flared patterned parapet. The paired arched windows and square openings recall an early Italian Renaissance palace. Although it holds two floors, it reads as a three-story building from the street. The company used it until 1924, when another firm bought it, and a small manufacturer has operated there since the 1940s. Its entrances have been infilled, but the brickwork around them survives. The building was recognized for architecture because it is an unusually refined warehouse, far more ornamented than typical industrial buildings in the surrounding area, and it reflects how a leading department store projected its status through even its service structures.","period_of_significance":"1903","architect_builder":"Holabird and Roche","architectural_style":"Late 19th and Early 20th Century Revivals: Italian Renaissance (described in the text as Renaissance Revival)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Used by a small manufacturing company since the 1940s; entrances were altered with infill, and developers plan to convert it to condominiums while keeping the heavy timber framework exposed.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.32195-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/12/8920/28892012/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/93000841.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000841/96773029e6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000841/96773029e6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Zagalejo","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mandel_Brothers_Warehouse.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Zagalejo</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:Mandel_Brothers_Warehouse.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892012","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandel_Brothers_Warehouse_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85783599"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/cook-county/mandel-brothers-warehouse-building-93000841/"}