Site
B
Proceed south on Michigan Avenue, turn right at Randolph, and walk three
blocks west to Dearborn Street. The Cultural Center of the Chicago
Public Library stands on the southwest corner of Michigan and Randolph.
Originally built as the city's central library in 1897 and designed by
Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge, this building was thoroughly renovated in
1977 under the guidance of the firm of Holabird and Root. Included in
the Cultural Center is the large G.A.R. Museum dedicated to the Northern
Soldiers of the Civil War. This building marks the north end of the Michigan
Avenue cultural district. Once the street was built up with cultural institutions
and businesses, the area immediately to the south of Grant Park became
a cultural "annex" of Michigan Avenue. The Field Museum of Natural
History, the Shedd Aquarium, and the Adler Planetarium are located along
the lakefront south of Roosevelt Road.
Site
C
 At
the southeast corner of State and Randolph stands the Marshall
Fields & Company department store, designed in several
phases (1892, 1902, 1906, 1907, and 1914) by D.H. Burnham &
Company. The portion at State and Washington marks the site of
three previous buildings used by the partnership of Field and
Leiter. The company moved to State Street in the late 1860s after
Marshall Fields was persuaded by Potter Palmer that this underused
street would become the retail heart of the city. The Field and
Leiter store gave the Chicago real estate entrepreneur a much-needed
anchor for the development of State Street into "that great
street."
The photograph to the right shows the Marshall Fields and Company
Building at State, Washington, Wabash and Randolph Streets in1985.
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