Casino Club (1928), 195 East Delaware Chicago, IL Architect…

195 East Delaware Chicago, IL Architect: Walter Frazier The most socially prestigious members-only club in Chicago is the Casino, a somewhat obscure and peculiar looking one-story, green-and-black Art Deco building tucked behind the Hancock. Originally located a few blocks away, when the Casino opened in 1914, "There were present eleven Blairs, eleven McCormicks, seven Cudahys, six Armours, five Carpenters, five Palmers" The land was leased from the Palmer family. Architects Arthur Heun and Ernest Walker created a pale pink stucco structure with Spanish Italianate influences, but the building burned down in 1927. Considering the current prices of real estate in the area, it is surprising a monstrous high-rise does not sit here, but that

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