Friday, March 1, 2019

Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co. (later True Value) Warehouse

(Satellite (University of Chicago Graduate School of Business), demolished in early 1989)
Maria Canzoneri posted
Don’t know anything about this business, found in an album of my dads things.....
Kimberly Lawler Hibard was a very large hardware chain. True Value bought them out.
Jeff Slo http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/2700.html
Jeff Slo https://chicagology.com/skyscrapers/skyscrapers021/
Bob Knack I think the building was once used as the main Chicago library.
Dennis DeBruler That is also a nice view of the Kraft plant, https://industrialscenery.blogspot.com/.../waker-drive...
Dennis DeBruler C&NW State Street Yard, https://industrialscenery.blogspot.com/.../cn-state...

Dennis DeBruler commented on Maria's post
The trapezoid shape makes it easy to spot in a 1938 aerial photo, http://clearinghouse.isgs.illinois.edu/.../0bwq08007.jpg

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