September 24, 1954 – With the decision to move to
the suburbs, the Butler Brothers Catalog Company announces the appointment of
Hogan & Farwell, Inc., a Chicago realty firm, as the leasing agent to
develop the Butler building on the northeast corner of Canal and Randolph
Streets. The building has close to one
million square feet of floor space with the Prudential Insurance Company of
Americn leasing the tenth and eleventh floors and the United States government
holding short-term leases for the Social Security board and the Air Force. George
and Edward Butler founded their mail-order company in Boston in 1877, opening a
Chicago warehouse two years later. By
1910 over a thousand people worked in its Chicago operation. The 1922 warehouse, originally designed by
Graham, Anderson, Probst & White, is today Randolph Place Condos with 340
loft apartments. The photo above shows the complex in 1950.
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