57 West Grand Avenue

The architectural firm of Huehl & Schmid designed this large loft building in 1912 to house the wholesale division of the paint supply and wallpaper firm of Remien & Kuhnert.  Its façade shows the influences of Chicago's creative architectural movements of the turn of the century, as exemplified by the work of Louis H. Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and other significant Midwestern architects of the period.  The ground floor was remodeled in  1945 with a distinctive "moderne" treatment executed in fluted terra cotta.