South Loop Printing House District is a historic district in the downtown Chicago Loop area of Chicago, Illinois. It is not the same as Printing House Row District (also known as South Dearborn Street-Printing House Row Historic District) which is a different district.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
Places included in the district that are separately listed on the National Register include: the Pontiac Building, Dearborn Station, and the Manhattan Building.
Famous quotes containing the words south, printing, house and/or district:
“Returned this day, the south wind searches,
And finds young pines and budding birches;
But finds not the budding man.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)
“In 1862 the congregation of the church forwarded the church bell to General Beauregard to be melted into cannon, “hoping that its gentle tones, that have so often called us to the House of God, may be transmuted into war’s resounding rhyme to repel the ruthless invader from the beautiful land God, in his goodness, has given us.””
—Federal Writers’ Project Of The Wor, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)