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- The Phenix (aka Phoenix) Building was an office building in Chicago designed by the noted Chicago architectural firm of Burnham and Root. It was built by the of Brooklyn, New York and occupied the block fronting Jackson Boulevard between Pacific Avenue (now LaSalle Street) and Clark Street. When completed in 1887, the building was seen as "the latest addition to Chicago's magnificent architectural structures". It was later owned by the Western Union Telegraph Company, who sold the building to the manufacturer and philanthropist Frederick C. Austin (1853-1931) in 1922. Austin donated it to Northwestern University in 1929 with the understanding that the income derived from it would "provide scholarships for the training of business executives". The building was demolished in 1957 and replaced by what today is known as the TransUnion Building, a twenty-four story office building designed by A. Epstein and Sons. (en)
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- * F.C. Austin Building (en)
- * Western Union Building (en)
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- Interior of Western Union office, ninth floor - main operating room - 1901. The floor was left undivided as one 9,750-square-foot space so that the five hundred operators who worked on that level could perform their duties unimpeded by interior partitions. (en)
- The Phenix Building as built, 1887 (en)
- As the Western Union Building, with two floors added in 1892 (en)
- Main façade details. Note the mythical phoenix and namesake of the building incorporated into the cornice as high-relief sculpture. The noted critic and essayist Montgomery Schuyler had this to say about the entrance: "If beauty be its own excuse for being, this entrance needs no other, for assuredly it is one of the most artistic and beautiful works American architecture has to show..." (en)
- The Phenix Building lobby measured 20 x 45 feet, with the entrance arch leading to it from the outside having a span of 24 feet. (en)
- Advertisement for The Phenix Mutual Fire Insurance Co., c.1895 (en)
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- * Western Union Building
* F.C. Austin Building (en)
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- The Phenix Building and related images (en)
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- Phenix Building Inland Architect & News Record Vol. X No. 3 Lobby.jpg (en)
- Nothing Saved but the Policy.jpg (en)
- Phenix Building interior.jpg (en)
- Western Union Building.jpg (en)
- Phenix Building Inland Architect & News Record Vol. X No. 3 Facade Details.jpg (en)
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- The Phenix Mutual Fire Insurance Company (en)
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- The Phenix (aka Phoenix) Building was an office building in Chicago designed by the noted Chicago architectural firm of Burnham and Root. It was built by the of Brooklyn, New York and occupied the block fronting Jackson Boulevard between Pacific Avenue (now LaSalle Street) and Clark Street. When completed in 1887, the building was seen as "the latest addition to Chicago's magnificent architectural structures". It was later owned by the Western Union Telegraph Company, who sold the building to the manufacturer and philanthropist Frederick C. Austin (1853-1931) in 1922. Austin donated it to Northwestern University in 1929 with the understanding that the income derived from it would "provide scholarships for the training of business executives". The building was demolished in 1957 and replac (en)
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- Phenix Building (Chicago) (en)
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