An excellent example of industrial structures that give the Printer’s Row neighborhood its name, 14-story Franklin Building was designed by Prairie School architect George C. Nimmons in 1912.
A long-discussed plan to bring new apartments to an empty lot at the northwest corner of Dearborn and Polk Streets in Chicago’s Printer’s Row neighborhood has once again morphed its appearance.
A long-discussed apartment proposal slated for an empty lot at the northwest corner of Dearborn and Polk Streets in Chicago’s Printer’s Row neighborhood looks to have been slashed from its original height of 15 stories down to just seven.
Printer’s Row is a uniquely Chicago neighborhood, but it doesn’t have to cost you a fortune to live there. So long as you don’t have a ton of belongings, you can find yourself a nice little one-bedroom for well under the $300,000 mark.
As Chicago’s South Loop continues to boom, a local architectural firm has shared its vision of a new mixed-use development replacing a Printer’s Row surface lot at the southeast corner of Dearborn and Harrison.
The building was designed by George C. Nimmons and built in 1912 for the Franklin Printing Company, but you could own this 1,650-square-foot piece of printing history for $495,000.