R. R. Donnelley Printing Plant

Open URL R. R. Donnelley Printing Plant
  • Title R. R. Donnelley Printing Plant
  • Variant Title Lakeside Press Building; R.R. Donnelley and Sons Co. Calumet Plant
  • Creator Shaw, Howard Van Doren, 1869-1926; Klauder, Charles Z.
  • Description View of part of the facade of the R. R. Donnelley Printing Plant at 350 East Cermak Road, at the northeast corner of the intersection with South Calumet Avenue. Signage visible on the lintel reads "R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. The Lakeside Press". Originally housing R.R. Donnelley's printing operations and serving as the company's headquarters, the plant was closed in 1993. The building was converted to telecom use in 1999 and currently serves as a major data center for financial firms and as a telecommunications facility, owned and operated by Digital Realty.
  • Notes Photograph credit: Brubaker, C. William, c. 1978
  • Iso Date 1912; 1929; 1978
  • Date 1912-1929 (R. R. Donnelley Printing Plant)
  • Geographic Coverage Near South Side (Chicago, Ill.)
  • Community Area 33
  • Subject industrial buildings; commercial buildings; printing plants; office buildings; mid-rise buildings; adaptive reuse
  • Subject Vocabulary Scheme AAT
  • Language English
  • Language Code eng
  • Type Image
  • Form architecture
  • View Description exterior detail
  • Physical Description 35 mm. slide
  • Slide Binder Book12
  • Slide Accession Number 12-3-F
  • Collection C. William Brubaker Collection (University of Illinois at Chicago)
  • Repository University of Illinois at Chicago. Library. [Visual Resources].
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  • Local Identifier bru012_03_fF
  • Item Url http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/u?/uic_bru,1503
  • Digital Collection C. William Brubaker Collection
  • Rights The University of Illinois at Chicago College of Architecture and the Arts holds reproduction and licensing rights. For more information, please email: lib-permissions@uic.edu.