Marshall Field and Company Store (Oak Park, Illinois)

Marshall Field and Company Store is a building in Oak Park, Illinois that was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 21, 1988. It is one of the two locations (along with the Evanston location) that the company chose to expand to when it decided to add suburban stores.[2] The store is a miniature replica of the Marshall Field and Company Building in the Chicago Loop and a twin of the Evanston store.[3]

This article is about the Oak Park Marshall Field Store Building. For the flagship store location, see Marshall Field and Company Building.

Marshall Field and Company Store
Location1144 W. Lake St.
Oak Park, Illinois
 United States
Coordinates41°53′21.32″N 87°48′16.02″W
Built1928
ArchitectGraham, Anderson, Probst & White
Architectural styleArt Deco
NRHP reference No.87002510 [1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 21, 1988

The building served as a Marshall Field's store from its opening until 1986, when Marshall Field's then-owner BATUS Inc. closed it because it was deemed out of date and too costly to operate. The building housed a Borders book store, until all the locations were closed in 2011. Today, it houses several offices.

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
  2. Stoffel, Jennifer (September 13, 1987). "IN THE NATION; Evanston: A Landmark Marshall Field's Is Becoming Residential Lofts". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved April 7, 2008.
  3. "Evanston Galleria Recalls Heyday of Marshall Field's Building". Winthrop Properties. Retrieved April 10, 2008.


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