Marshall Field Wholesale Store was a commercial warehouse
building designed by Henry Hobson Richardson. Modern architecture is said to
have emerged in the United States by this building. Richardson achieved an
effect of monumental mass and stability. Richardson did not focus on historical
designs or architecture traditions; he demonstrated that a large commercial
building could be expressed as a single integrated unit. Not all buildings must
contain a symbolic meaning, especially when the purpose is just business. The windows are
contained by massive Romanesque arches, which give the impression of having
four levels, but in fact there are seven floors and a sunken basement. Marshall
Field and Company closed the building in 1930 after the opening of the
Merchandise Mart, then the world's largest building, which consolidated all
company wholesale business under a single roof.
This is a picture of the Merchandise Mart building,
responsible for putting an end of the Marshall Field Wholesale Store:
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