Printing House Row District

The Printing House Row District is a National Historic Landmark District encompassing four architecturally important buildings on South Dearborn Street, between Jackson Boulevard (300 S.) and Ida B.

Wells Drive (500 S., formerly Congress Parkway), in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois.

Opposite the southern portion of the Monadnock stands the Fisher Building, fronting on South Dearborn and Van Buren.

The Manhattan Building, built in 1889–91 to a design by William Le Baron Jenney, was the first skyscraper supported entirely by an internal metal skeleton, and was the tallest building in the world at its completion.

The Old Colony Building, built in 1893–94 to a design by Holabird & Roche, demonstrated a means to build skyscrapers on narrow lots, yet provided sufficient strength to its floors to withstand the operational stresses of printing equipment.