430-436 North Clark Street

430 N. Clark Street:

One of the first structures to arise on North Clark Street after the Chicago Fire of 1871 was this three-story building of Henry Lamparter, a dealer in gas light fittings.  Planned with stores on the ground floor and flats above, the building was under construction less than three months after the fire.  Exterior walls are of common brick, possibly salvaged and re-used from the fire debris.

Today, 430 North Clark Street is home to Starbuck's.

432 N. Clark Street:  

The 432 N. Clark Street building was designed in 1987 to harmonize with the historic construction. and merge the three separate buildings.  Excavations revealed a cache of antique bottles, clay pipes, and other artifacts dating from a saloon which stood on the site during the 1880s.  These artifacts of Clark Street's past were carefully excavated by hand and are now displayed in the offices of Friedman Properties.

436 N. Clark Street:  

Originally erected in 1872 as a mixed-use building by coal merchant Edward K. Rogers, this picturesque structure was designed by W.W. Boyington, the same architect who designed Chicago's historic Old Water Tower at Chicago and Michigan Avenues.  What appears to be stone on the façade is actually molded terra cotta, one of the earliest surviving examples of this material in the city, and a direct ancestor of such later terra-cotta-clad structures as the Wrigley Building on North Michigan Avenue.

Today, 436 North Clark is home to a wide range of commercial tenants.