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	Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was designed by Louis Sullivan, built in 1899 for the retail firm Schlesinger and Meyer, and expanded and sold to Carson Pirie Scott in 1904.
		The building is remarkable for its steel structure, which allowed a dramatic increase in window area, which in turn allowed far more daylight into the building interiors, and far more display of merchandise to outside pedestrian traffic.
		The building is one of the classic structures of the Chicago school.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carson,_Pirie,_Scott_and_Company_Building (192 words)

	Chicago Travel Itinerary--Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The second building, which is annexed to the first, is 12 stories high and was built in 1903.
		The interior space is mixed-use on all floors with main stairways in the northeast and southeast corners of the building.
		The Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company building is located at 1 State St. on the southeast corner of State and Madison streets in the Loop.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/chicago/c9.htm (287 words)

	Carson Pirie Scott & Co.
		By the end of the Civil War, Carson and Pirie was based on Lake Street in Chicago; during the late 1860s, annual sales (wholesale and retail) reached $800,000.
		During the twentieth century, the retail operations of Carson's (as it came to be known) continued to grow; by the beginning of the 1960s, it operated 11 stores around the Chicago region, where it employed about 8,000 people and did about $150 million in annual sales.
		In 1989, Carson Pirie Scott was bought by P. Bergner and Co., a Milwaukee-based subsidiary of a Swiss company.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/2586.html (293 words)

	Chicago
		Unlike the north building, the south was built with a steel skeleton.
		The artwork of the building carries the theme of commodity trading from the sheaves of wheat in the lobby's panels to the statue of Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture.
		The oldest building in Chicago is a Greek revival-style house built in 1837 by Henry B. Clarke, a Chicago businessman, farmer and one-time city clerk (1846-48).
	www.suntimes.com /special_sections/almanac/arch.html (3571 words)

	carson pirie scott (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Darn, the carson pirie scott co is less mischievous than the thirsty carson pirie scott catalog.
		Yikes, the carson pirie scott prom dress is much more flat than a sociable carson pirie scott department store.
		Oh this carson pirie scott chicago is much more husky than this abhorrent carson pirie scott home store.
	carson-pirie-scott.nkbg.info (365 words)

	Reliance Building, Chicago
		Late in the 20th century the building was nearly vacant, with the facade falling apart and the original cornice missing.
		Because of staggered lease expirations in the previous five-story building, the Reliance was built in two phases: the lower 2 floors in 1890-1891, and the upper 14 in 1894-1895.
		The original Carson Pirie Scott Store at the base was decorated inside with English alabaster walls, mahogany woodwork, marble mosaic floors, and murals by William Pretyman on the ceilings.
	www.emporis.com /en/wm/bu/?id=117626 (422 words)

	Guaranty & Carson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Carson: The rich ornament of the first and second floors demonstrates Sullivan's idea that the display windows were like pictures and deserved rich frames.
		The Guaranty Construction Company -- of Chicago -- which was to construct the building for Taylor, bought the property and completed the project in 1896.
		His buildings, like a classical column, had a base consisting of the lower two stories, a main shaft in which verticality was emphasized by piers between the windows (occasionally joined by arcading at the top) andñthe crowning gloryñan elaborate and boldly projecting terra-cotta cornice.
	ah.bfn.org /a/archs/sul/car (1055 words)

	ArtLex on architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		It is described as being octostyle peripteral because it has eight columns on its front and the back, and because it is surrounded by a colonnade or peristyle.
		Islamic tomb in a walled garden built for Shah Jahan's wife Mumatz Mahal [aka Arjuman Banu Begum], of bearing masonry and inlaid marble, with onion-shape domes and flanking towers, in Agra, India, seat of the Mughal Empire.
		Great Buildings Collection is a gateway to architecture from around the world and across history.
	www.artlex.com /ArtLex/a/architecture.html (2264 words)

	Architecture in Chicago, Illinois
		Visiting Tips: The building is public and is open during the day on weekdays and weekends.
		Photography: The building is so huge, you have to be across the river to get a good shot of the whole.
		Photography: The building sits on the river, and the best exterior shots are probably from the banks.
	mintaka.sdsu.edu /faculty/erics/web/arcchicago.html (1168 words)

	Mutualist Blog: Free Market Anti-Capitalism
		Emma's members are white, middle-class, college-educated, dedicated nonviolent revolutionaries, currently between the ages of 23 and 40, trying to concretely realize their utopian vision in the middle of a dystopian world of war, famine, disease, and ecological devastation.
		The actual physical process is likewise subsidized, from the building of roads to the uranium mines on government land, to the disposal of waste.
		Most of Pirie's choices of examples are unfortunate, not to say comical, from the standpoint of his "free market" rhetoric.
	mutualist.blogspot.com (5950 words)

	Carson Pirie Scott Store, Chicago
		Besides Carson Pirie Scott, the other flagship department store remaining on State Street is the Marshall Field & Company Store.
		The building's original cornice is missing but the owners plan to restore it within the next few years.
		The building was constructed as a replacement for the 1873 Schlesinger & Mayer store at the same corner, designed by William W. Boyington.
	www.emporis.com /en/wm/bu?id=117485 (335 words)

	Johnson Design Group - Portfolio - Carson Pirie Scott, Bradley, IL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Carson's opened at the mall with a 60,000 square foot store with a scaled down full line of businesses.
		When the Venture store closed, their building was available.
		Carson's decided to try the two-store concept in a single level mall.
	www.jdg1.com /portfolio/projects/cps_brad.asp (300 words)

	Chicago Lofts & Condos
		It includes the original Marshall Field and Company department store, with its landmark clock that juts out above the sidewalk; and the original Carson Pirie Scott and Company Building, which houses a department store and was designed by the noted architect Louis Sullivan.
		The Loop is a veritable "museum without walls." Examples of public art in the form of traditional monuments, murals, and monumental contemporary sculpture are located widely throughout the city, but their concentration within the Loop (and nearby Grant Park) is worth noting.
		In the 19th century, workers arrived to build the Southwestern Plank Road; the Illinois and Michigan Canal; and the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad.
	chicagoloftsandcondos.com (706 words)

	Chicago Architects - Late 19th Century
		The Auditorium Building, 1887-89, northwest corner of Michigan Ave and Congress Pkwy.
		Chamber of Commerce Building, 1888-89, southeast corner of LaSalle and Washington Streets, demolished in 1928.
		Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company (original structure, Louis Sullivan), 1903-3; 1906.
	patsabin.com /illinois/architects.htm (1136 words)

	State Street, Chicago
		State Street was once the main street of Chicago with such stores as Marshall Field and Carson, Pirie, Scott still in place, even though the prime shopping area now lines the Magnificent Mile.
		Carson, Pirie, Scott and Co., a department store constructed in the Chicago style.
		Lacework doorway of Carson Pirie Scott & Co. department store (1899) on State Street in Chicago.
	www.planetware.com /chicago/state-street-us-il-ss.htm (134 words)

	Merchants' Bank (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		His own work departs from historicism, emphasizing the structure of the building and the properties of steel, brick and terra cotta cladding, and ornamental metals used in the development of skyscrapers and fireproof buildings.
		The legacy of his later years were a group of richly detailed banks built for clients who had been inspired by his progressive landmarks in Chicago, including the Grinnell bank that is known as the "jewel box" design, named for its square shape and the keyhole motif of the entrance.
		The Auditorium Building in Chicago, Wainwright Building in St. Louis, Missouri and the Guaranty Building in Buffalo, New York are his most celebrated skyscrapers, and the Carson Pirie Scott Department Store in Chicago is known as one of the great achievements of American commercial architecture.
	www.burrows.com /bank.html (493 words)

	Frank Lloyd Wright
		He’s the one who articulates a vision of the tall office building as the sort of grand new romantic form the architect will work in that’s going to create the new American city, the new American space.
		What Wright gets from Sullivan more than that is this vision of the architect as hero, a culture hero, somebody who will be the person who will speak the soul of the nation, the soul of the age and by giving that soul expression and form, build the whole universe that we inhabit.
		he would design a building that would reveal a sense of tallness based on the steel frame.
	www.pbs.org /flw/buildings/larkin/larkin_movements02.html (173 words)

	OKEH RECORDS: The Origins of Okeh (1918-1920)
		Domestic's first records were 7-inch fine-groove vertical cut discs produced by the Domino Record Company, a short-lived venture unrelated to the 1920s label of the same name.
		Stranded in the U.S. at the outbreak of German hostilities, the Heineman brothers formed an import company at 45 Broadway, New York.
		In 1915, Otto contracted with the Garford Manufacturing Company of Elyria, Ohio, to produce high-quality phonograph motors to his specifications, and in December 1915 he incorporated his new business at the Otto Heineman Phonograph Supply Company, Inc. (25 West Forty-Fifth Street, New York).
	www.mainspringpress.com /okeh.html (2478 words)

	Downtown Chicago -The Loop: Chicago City Tour
		It includes the original Marshall Field & Company department store, with its landmark clock that juts out above the sidewalk; and the original Carson Pirie Scott & Company Building, which houses a department store and was designed by the noted architect Louis Sullivan.
		The City Hall-County Building and the striking, blue-tinted James R. Thompson Center (formerly called the State of Illinois Center) also face LaSalle Street.
		The Loop is a veritable "museum without walls." Examples of public art - in the form of traditional monuments, murals, and monumental contemporary sculpture - are located widely throughout the city, but their concentration within the Loop (and nearby Grant Park) is worth noting.
	www.chicagohomefinder.com /citytour/downtown.php (717 words)

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		These plans served as the basis for the restoration of the house they completed in 1988, although a few spaces, such as the servants bedrooms, were not restored to their original configuration, since the building was being converted for use as office space.
		The Adler and Sullivan partnership produced such remarkable structures as the Auditorium Building (1886-1889) in Chicago, the Wainwright Building (1890-1891) in St. Louis, the Chicago Stock Exchange (1893-1894, demolished), and the Guaranty Building (1894-1895) in Buffalo, New York.
		Among Sullivan's most renowned projects from this later period are the Schlesinger and Mayer Store (now Carson, Pirie, Scott and Co., 1898-1899 and 1902-1903) in Chicago, the Bayard-Condict Building (1897) in New York, and the facade of the Gage Building (1898-1899) also in Chicago.
	www.sah.org /index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=print&ceid=32 (3118 words)

	Carson Jobs Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Carson City Safeway NOW HIRING Floral Manager F/T Apprentice Food Clerks P/T Courtesy Clerks P/T Baker P/T Donut Fryer P/T Night Stocker P/T Apprentice Meat Cutter F/T Deli Clerks P/T Bakery Clerks P/T Must be 18 yrs.
		Now Hiring Facility Supervisor The Schwan Food Company, headquartered in Marshall, Minn., is the largest, branded frozen-food company in the United States and the second-largest privately held firm in Minnesota.
		Carson Pirie Scott and Company is currently seeking an experienced Regional Recruiter for multiple regions.
	www.fittcarson.info /carson-jobs (2337 words)

	The Magical Space (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The store structure itself lured people in with its actual form.
		Some had ornamental doorways, such as the Carson Pirie Scott and Company building in Chicago by Louis Sullivan.
		Below this text, a close-up is shown of the the cast iron ornamentation on the entrance to Sullivan's department store.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~MA99/hall/deptstores/Magicalspace.html (147 words)

	Dukane Precast, Inc. information and related industry information from Hoover's
		The company also makes precast concrete for residential construction, offers engineering design services, and operates a delivery fleet.
		Customers include the DeVry, Carson Pirie Scott, and Medieval Times.
		For one week each month Hoover's Hottest Companies will bring you The Hoover's 100, a monthly list of companies most searched by our subscribers.
	www.hoovers.com /dukane-precast/--ID__125376--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml (347 words)

	Carson Pirie Scott (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The company does not have any registered dealers for the show
		No brands have been registered for this company
		No product categories have been registered for this company.
	www.chicagoboatshow.com /directory?id=5956 (28 words)

	National Historic Landmarks in Illinois (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Carson, Pirie, Scott & Company Building, 1 S. State Street (4-17-70)
		Leiter II Building (Sears, Roebuck & Company), Northeast corner of S. State Street and E. Congress Parkway, Chicago (1-7-76)
		Montgomery Ward Company Complex, 619 W. Chicago Avenue, Chicago (6-2-78)
	www.state.il.us /HPA/ps/nhl.htm (748 words)

	Minnesota History Quarterly: Indexes
		Caldwell and Company, St. Paul, bankers, 2:139, 40:112–113
		Calumet Iron and Steel Company, Chicago, 18:139, 149
		Canda, Charles and Ferdinand, railroad building contractors, 60:9, 11
	www.mnhs.org /market/mhspress/MinnesotaHistory/index/histidxc.html (2508 words)

	Jazz Age Chicago--Extended List of Chicago History Links
		Searchable Database of Chicago Buildings and Landmarks [Commission on Chicago Landmarks]
		History of Carson Pirie Scott and Company [Saks Incorporated]
		History of Montgomery Ward and Company [Univ. of Western Ontario]
	chicago.urban-history.org /res/res03.shtml (2422 words)

	Books about Chicago and the University of Chicago
		Condit, Carl W.: The Chicago School of Architecture: A History of Commercial and Public Building in the Chicago Area, 1875-1925
		Siry, Joseph M.: The Chicago Auditorium Building: Adler and Sullivan's Architecture and the City
		Bachin, Robin F.: Building the South Side: Urban Space and Civic Culture in Chicago, 1890-1919
	www.press.uchicago.edu /Subjects/virtual_chicago.html (2015 words)

	State Street, Chicago Vintage Postcards
		Masonic Temple- 1904, built 1891-92, northeast corner of State and Randolph Streets, demolished in 1939.
		Columbus Memorial Building- corner of State Street and Washington
		The Fair Department Store, built 1890-91, north side of Adams Street from State to Dearborn
	patsabin.com /illinois/vintage_statest.htm (70 words)

	project Chicago
		(Jeweler's Building; Pure Oil Building; North American Life Building)
		(First National Bank Building; One First National Plaza)
		The Maclean Center (The School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
	projectchicago.org /database/LOOP/index.html (37 words)

	Carson Pirie Scott \| Chicago \| WCities Destination Guide
		Although the building's glory has long since gone, the marvelous wrought-iron decoration on the front of Louis Sullivan's masterpiece is worth more than a cursory look.
		While the interior has faded into a status quo department store, the outside is elegance personified.
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	www.wcities.com /en/record/,10626/35/record.html (80 words)

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