PLACE TO STAY
WHILE YOU’RE THERE… SOHO HOUSE CHICAGO
Soho House Chicago is located in the Allis Building, a historic five-storey industrial warehouse in Chicago’s West Loop, making it an exciting combination of hip hotel and industrial chic.
The building was commissioned in 1907 by Charles Allis, an influential industrialist, art collector and philanthropist from Milwaukee, as the headquarters of the Chicago Belting Company. Close to the city’s Union Stock Yards, which supplied the raw animal hides for its products, the Allis Building is one of the city’s best examples of concrete industrial loft design.
The Allis’ architect was Lawrence G. Hallberg, a Swedish émigré and pioneer in factory design. He combined large factory floor spaces with decorative touches: terrazzo tiling, an embellished elevator cab, a wrought iron double staircase, and a neo-classical portico at the front entrance inscribed with the building’s name.
From its Chicago headquarters, the Chicago Belting Company quickly became one of the most successful industrial leather producers in the country. When the leather industry declined in the 1930s and 1940s, the company adapted to produce rubber products for the automobile and aerospace industries.
In 2010, Charlan Hamill, the great-great-great-grand-niece of Charlie Allis, sold the dwindling business. In 2012, the Soho House refurbishment began. The water tower on the roof, deemed structurally unsound, was removed plank-by-plank, and repurposed as a lobby mural and the marble mosaic at the entrance has been recreated, spelling out ‘Allis Building’ as it had done for 100 years.
In this carefully updated industrial building, guests, as well as Soho House members can enjoy loft living with added bars, restaurants, a Cowshed spa and a fabulous rooftop pool.
www.sohohousechicago.com
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