Roanoke Building

Lumber Exchange Building and Tower Addition
Roanoke Building from west along Madison
Roanoke Building is located in Chicago Loop
Roanoke Building
Location of Roanoke Building in the Chicago Loop area
Location11 South LaSalle Street
Chicago, Illinois
Coordinates41°52′53.7″N 87°37′56.4″W / 41.881583°N 87.632333°W / 41.881583; -87.632333
Arealess than one acre
Built1915
ArchitectHolabird & Roche
Architectural stylePortuguese Gothic Revival
NRHP reference No.07001238[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPDecember 6, 2007
Designated CLDecember 12, 2007

11 South LaSalle Street Building or Eleven South LaSalle Street Building (formerly Roanoke Building and Tower and originally Lumber Exchange Building and Tower Addition or simply the Roanoke Building and Lumber Exchange Building) is a Chicago Landmark building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and that is located at 11 South LaSalle Street in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States. This address is located on the southeast corner of LaSalle and Madison Street in Cook County, Illinois, across the Madison Street from the One North LaSalle Building. The building sits on a site of a former Roanoke building (once known as Major Block 2) that once served as a National Weather Service Weather Forecast official climate site and replaced Major Block 1 after the Great Chicago Fire. The current building has incorporated the frontage of other buildings east of the original site of Major Block 1.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (under the name Lumber Exchange Building and Tower Addition) on December 6, 2007,[1][2] and named a Chicago Landmark on December 12, 2007.[3] It incorporates the lands of the former DeSoto Building and former Farwell Hall.[4] The building was renovated to become the world's largest Residence Inn in 2015.

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties 12/03/07 through 12/07/07", National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service. Retrieved May 18, 2008. Archived October 25, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Designation sensation: Council landmarks five buildings, two districts" (Press release). December 12, 2007. Archived from the original on May 18, 2011. Retrieved March 31, 2008. At 11 S. LaSalle St., the Roanoke Building and Tower was designed in stages between 1915 and 1925 by architects Holabird & Roche and Andrew Rebori. The building's terra cotta ornamentation is derived from unusual Portuguese Gothic precedents.
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