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Bank of America Building
231 South LaSalle Street
Chicago IL United States
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| Status: | built | | Construction Dates | | Began | 1923 | | Finished | 1924 | | Floor Count | 20 | | Floor Area | 95,483 m² |
|  | | Building Uses | | - office | | Structural Types | | - highrise | | Architectural Style | | - neo-classical | | Materials | | - steel | | - limestone |
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| | Heights | | Value | | Source / Comments | | | | Roof | | 305 ft | | | | | | | |
Description
Architect: Graham, Anderson, Probst & White
-The ground level retail arcade was renovated around 1990, and runs through the entire building with entrances on Clark, Jackson, and LaSalle.
- The main entrance is an Ionic portico, which complements the Corinthian and Doric columns of its neighboring buildings.
- A grand three-story banking hall rises from the second floor, ringed by 28 large marble columns.
- Encircling the banking hall above the pillars is a frieze by Jules Guerin titled "A Testimonial to World Trade". It depicts symbolic figures representing different nations, with the World Columbian Exposition as a background.
- On 11 October 1883, at the Grand Pacific Hotel on the site of this building, the four time zones of the continental United States were formally adopted at a meeting of railroad industry leaders.
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