Marine Bank Building; Louis Kurz for Jevne & Almini, 1866-67 (ichi-63077)
The Marine Bank Building stood on the northeast corner of Lake and LaSalle streets. Along with the other structures on Lake Street between LaSalle and Clark, it was lifted six feet in 1858-59 to accommodate the raising of Lake Street's grade. Its president was the prominent attorney and philanthropist J. Young Scammon, in whose Marine Bank office the Chicago Historical Society (now the Chicago History Museum) was founded in 1856.
The Rebuilding of the Marine Building; Glass Lantern Slide, ca. 1873 (ichi-02845)
The view here is east along Lake Street. The new Marine Building, on the northeast corner of Lake and LaSalle, was two stories higher than its predecessor, and an additional level was added in 1890. It stood on this this site until 1928.
Looking East to the Corner of Lake and LaSalle Streets; J. Sherwin Murphy, Photograph, 1953 (ichi-64365)
This image, from the same vantage as in the Jevne & Almini lithograph, reveals (among other things) how much the Elevated tracks, constructed in the 1890s, altered the character of Lake Street.
