Chicago Mercantile Exchange Strikes $151.5 Million Deal To Sell Landmark 1885 Board of Trade Building
[{"id": "c4gxlgg", "text": "FYI Fox, this building was NOT constructed in 1885. That was an old building that was demolished in the 1920's to make way for the Art Deco structure that stands today which was completed in 1930. Could you do a little fact checking before you just shit out misinformation? Any real estate reporter with half a brain should know that Art Deco was built almost exclusively in the first few decades of the 1900's (notably the 20's and 30's) and not in the late 1800's. You are off by 45 years Fox...", "replies": [{"id": "c4h1nlm", "text": "You are totally correct, don't know how I missed that... A quick check of Wikipedia indicates the current [Chicago Board of Trade Building](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Board_of_Trade_Building) was built in 1930.\n\nThe 1885 building demolished in 1929,and the exchange temporarily moved to Van Buren and Clark while a new building was constructed at the LaSalle and Jackson site.\nThe 35 ft tall statutes of Industry and Agriculture were removed from the original 1885 building and now stand in the pedestrian plaza nearby.\n\n", "replies": [{"id": "c4hbsf1", "text": "Yeah, I'm a huge architecture and real estate nerd and sometimes the architectural ignorance of people (especially journalists who you'd think would research such things) astounds me. It seems blatantly obvious to me that there is no way an art deco building could have been built in 1885, but then again I'm probably blinded by my own obsession with such things.", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}]