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Oliver Building
Designated as a Chicago landmark on May 9, 1984. Oliver Building works well as a public foothold for commercial development, architectural branding, and corridor and downtown change.
Oliver Building
159 N Dearborn St, Chicago, Illinois
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- Official status: Chicago individual landmark.
- Address: 159 N Dearborn St.
- Built: 1907.
- Architect: Holabird & Roche 1920 top addn.
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Why It Matters
Oliver Building gives commercial development, architectural branding, and corridor and downtown change a durable public anchor.
From there, the building can be read through design, use, later change, and neighborhood context instead of remaining a detached image or isolated fact.
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Landmark Context
Oliver Building is tied to 159 N Dearborn St in the city's landmark file. City records connect the site to a construction date of 1907 and credits Holabird & Roche 1920 top addn. It was designated on May 9, 1984. Oliver Building already has a usable public frame for work on commercial development, architectural branding, and corridor and downtown change.
Oliver Building is best approached by paying attention to storefront depth, upper-floor expression, and corner treatment, how the facade addresses pedestrian traffic, and later signage, infill, or reuse. Read carefully, those details begin to explain how commercial architecture stayed visible even as the economic life around it changed.
Research Starting Points
Oliver Building is easiest to push beyond designation through trade press and city directories, permit files and assessor records, and historic photographs and newspaper coverage. That is usually how a short landmark record turns into a fuller account of use, alteration, and neighborhood setting.
Oliver Building gives later fieldwork and archives a stable site to keep circling back to.
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1907
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Construction period recorded in city landmark data
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Chicago's public landmark data records Oliver Building as built in 1907.
May 9, 1984
Designation
Chicago individual landmark designation
by Public record Previous
City of Chicago designated Oliver Building as an individual landmark on May 9, 1984.
February 2026
Inventory
City landmark address list and data portal record
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Oliver Building remains listed in Chicago's public individual-landmark address list and open-data record.
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City of Chicago Open Data: Individual Landmarks
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Place Snapshot
- Place
- Oliver Building
- Location
- 159 N Dearborn St, Chicago, Illinois
- Coverage
- Exact
Key Facts
- Region
- Chicago, Illinois / Midwest
- Place type
- Commercial Building
- Current status
- Preserved
- Address
- 159 N Dearborn St
- Built
- 1907
- Architect
- Holabird & Roche 1920 top addn.
- Designated
- May 9, 1984
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Holabird & Roche 1920 top addn.
1907
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