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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