Speculation Interruption

A. Wittemann, “Masonic Temple ,” Paris of the Midwest: Chicago, 1837-1987, accessed October 25, 2016,http://parisofthemidwest.omeka.net/items/show/69.

A photograph of a Masonic temple in Chicago. 21 stories tall, it once stood at the corner of Randolph and State Streets. It was built in completed in 1892 and demolished in the 1930s.[1]

At the time of its construction by the firm Burnham and Root, the Masonic Temple had the highest occupied floor in the city. It was Chicago’s tallest building until the 1920s.[2] According to the Chicago Tribune, by 1939, the building was considered to be of no value because of a surplus of vacant office space in the loop due to a building boom in the 1920s. It was torn down that year to make way for a new State Street subway station.[3]