Structure Type: built works - commercial buildings - office buildings; built works - commercial buildings - stores
Designers: [unspecified]
Dates: constructed 1913
5 stories, total floor area: 24,086 sq. ft.
Originally, this second Columbia House Hotel had three stories. In later years, the architect Fred Bassetti (1917-2013) owned the Columbia House; in the early 1980s, when developer Martin Selig sought to buy the Columbia House to build his 76-story Columbia Center, Bassetti initially refused, forcing Selig and his designer to design around the three-story brick structure. The Columbia Center's arc form may have begun as a way to wrap around Bassetti's parcel.
A renovation in 2001 added two steel and glass stories atop the original brick structure.
PCAD id: 19020