Chapin & Gore Building, 63 East Adams Street, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Significance: The Chapin and Gore Building, 1904, was built for a Chicago firm which specialized in the making and distribution of wines and whiskies. The architect, Richard E. Schmidt, was one of a group of Chicago architects known primarily for their residential work. This structure represents one of the few multi-story office buildings executed by this group known as the "Prairie School." The use of both cast iron and timber columns in the building is an unusual example of skeleton framing growing out of the Chicago architecture of the late 19th century, while the bold formal treatment of the brick facade with its original terra cotta ornament and the interior detailing of the Chapin and Gore Bar on the west side of the ground floor were designed in the best tradition of Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-131
Survey number: HABS IL-1039
Building/structure dates: 1904 Initial Construction