The Rookery
1885 - Daniel Burnham and John Root are commissioned to design a building for the Central Safety Deposit Company to be located at the southeast corner of LaSalle and Adams Streets.
1888 - The Rookery is completed, and at eleven stories high, becomes one of the grandest buildings in the world at the time. Burnham & Root move their offices to The Rookery. Their former offices are now known as The Burnham Library.
1905 - Frank Lloyd Wright updates the light court with a more modern appearance, encasing iron columns in gilded white marble and adding bronze chandeliers with prismatic glass.
1931 - William Drummond infuses Art Deco flair into The Rookery, dividing the two-story entrance lobby into separate floors and replacing Wright’s open-geometric elevator cages with solid bronze doors etched with birds.
1970 - The Rookery is placed on The National Register of Historic Places.
1972 - The City of Chicago designates The Rookery as an official Chicago Landmark.