Building file · West Loop
Two factory buildings — a 1926 tower built for the A.B. Dick Company and a 1933 neighbor once occupied by Wurlitzer — joined in 1995 into one of the near West Loop's first large loft conversions.
The eight-story neo-Gothic tower at 728 West Jackson was designed by Alfred S. Alschuler in 1926 as the headquarters of the A.B. Dick Company — the people who put the mimeograph on every office floor in America. The company soon stacked more floors on top, bringing it to the twelve stories you see today, and moved out in 1949. The building's long second act gave the conversion its name: it became home to menswear maker Hart Schaffner & Marx, Chicago's great haberdasher.
The neighboring 1933 building, once occupied by the Wurlitzer company, came along in the deal. In 1995 the two were combined and converted — early for the West Loop, years before the restaurant row made the neighborhood a brand.
Haberdasher Square is really two loft buildings wearing one name, and that is its most useful fact for a buyer: one side is classic heavy timber — wood columns and ceilings — and the other is early reinforced concrete with flared mushroom columns. Same association, two different loft experiences; the timber side carries sound and warmth, the concrete side runs quieter and cooler. Roughly 226 homes in all, a few blocks from the Loop and the restaurant row both.
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