The Ludington Building in Chicago, Illinois, is a steel-frame building that is the oldest surviving structure of its kind in the city. Located in the Chicago Loop community area at 1104 South Wabash Avenue, it was designed by William Le Baron Jenney.
Commissioned by Mary Ludington Barnes for the American Book Company, the building serves as a significant piece of Chicago's heritage. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 8, 1980, and was named a Chicago Landmark on June 10, 1996.
Presently, the building is one of twenty structures that comprise the campus of Columbia College Chicago.
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