The Morrison Hotel was a high rise hotel at the corner of Madison and Clark Streets in the downtown Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. It was designed by the architectural firm of Holabird & Roche and completed in 1925.

Apr 30, 2023 · In this installment, we will discuss the Morrison Hotel, which was once a prominent edifice near the center of The Loop and one of the tallest buildings ever demolished. We will explore its design, historical significance, and the legacy it left behind.

Oct 31, 2024 · With more than 2,000 rooms by 1935, the Morrison had become a nexus of Chicago’s social and psychic life, one of the first things travelers saw as they approached from the east, a brick tower rising like Vesuvius from the bottom of the sea.

Oct 1, 2024 · In its center, glowing like a dream of raw youth, is the Morrison Hotel. It was the Hancock of its time, the Sears Tower. It was the exclamation point that punctuated everything. Then it wasn’t.

Dec 4, 2016 · The Morrison Hotel was named for Orsemus Morrison, the first coroner in Chicago, who bought the site in 1838 and in 1860 built a three-story hotel with 21 rooms on the southeast corner of Clark and Madison Streets.

The Morrison Hotel was a high rise hotel at the corner of Madison and Clark Streets in the downtown Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. It was designed by the architectural firm of Holabird & Roche and completed in 1925.

In its heyday, the Morrison, which in 1925 touted itself as the world’s largest and tallest hotel, was the spot to be seen. Image credit: (Terrace Garden) Mary L. Martin Ltd.; (hotel) Chicago Public Library/Special Collections / Chicago Magazine.

Mar 17, 2003 · The Morrison hotel, one of the loop s tallest skyscrapers, was selected by Mayor Thompson’s radio commission yesterday as the building on which “Lindbergh Light,” the world’s largest aircraft beacon, should be erected.

The Terrace Garden restaurant, located on the first floor of the Morrison Hotel at Clark and Madison in downtown Chicago, offered patrons live music and dancing with their lavish meals. In the 1920s when this picture was taken, the Morrison advertised itself as …

Nov 1, 2019 · Morison Hotel, made me think of The Doors. Tallest building ever torn down in Chicago at 525 ft tall with 45 floors. It's demolition is nothing short of an atrocity and disgusts me to my very core.