Loop Back: Washers And Tools
Built in 1916 for the Maytag Company when it was still best-known as a farm machinery manufacturer, this four-story warehouse and showroom would ultimately become a key regional branch for...
Historic North Loop
Loop Back: From Carriages To Crackers To Color TVs
Though it’s one of the older buildings in the North Loop, the limestone tower at 250 North 3rd Avenue has been at the center of some modern advances in American...
Loop Back: The Office Tower That Used To Be A Bakery
Though it’s now home to several levels of office suites, the Loose-Wiles building is best known for different types of sweets. As in biscuits, cookies and wafers from what was...
Former Hotels/Boarding Houses On 1st Street
With business booming in the late 1800s, there was a need for affordable lodging in the Warehouse District—not only for businessmen arriving by train to visit the warehouses and factories,...
Loop Back: Bookmen Lofts
Though they were built as warehouses for wholesale grocers in 1914 and 1915, the side-by-side brick buildings now known as Bookmen Lofts are best known for their namesake, The Bookmen,...