Morrison Hotel

The Morrison Hotel was a high rise hotel at the corner of Madison and Clark Streets in the downtown Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. Its final iteration was designed by the architectural firm of Holabird & Roche and completed in 1915, with several additions later added. The hotel was demolished in 1965 to make room for the First National Plaza (now Chase Tower). The hotel was named for Orsemus Morrison, the first coroner in Chicago, who bought the site in 1838 and in 1860 built a three-story hotel with 21 rooms that was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and replaced by an eight-story building that opened in 1873. A third and much larger 21-floor structure was constructed in 1915 to replace the one that burned. It saw numerous expansions (including the addition of a 46-story skyscraper) before being demolished.

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