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Show 10 West 100 South 5. McCornick Building, Crandall Building HISTORY (continued): Architectural History. The seven-story McCornick Block, built 18901893 of local Kyune sandstone and brick, is one of Salt Lake City's few surviving commercial blocks constructed during the city's building boom prior to the panic of 1893* Built as a. bank for the W e S. McCornick Company, the Block is an outstanding example of the transitional period of commercial architecture which anticipated Louis Sullivan's "skyscraper" movement Originally situated among small one- and two-story stores which it dominated, the McCornick Block is significant as a precursor in the development of early modern architecture in Salt Lake City,as evident in the purely Sullivanesque Mclntyre Building (National Register nominee) which adjoined the Me Cornick Block on the north in 1909* The architect was Mr. Mendelson of Omaha, Nebraska. Although modified along part of its lower floor and along the cornice, the block isbasically intact and the fabric is well preserved. |
