Lawson House

The Lawson House is an Art-deco skyscraper designed by Perkins, Chatten & Hammond, and built in 1931, for a reported $2.75 million dollars, in Chicago, IL.

Lawson House is not the only name you might know this building by though. It is common for companies to want to attach their names to iconic buildings when they move in, or for the general public to come up with nicknames, and this one is no exception. The Lawson House is also known, or has been known as, Lawson House YMCA, or Victor Lawson YMCA Building.

Its precise street address is 30 W. Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL. You can also find it on the map here.

The building underwent a major restoration between 2022 and 2024. The architect commissioned to undertake this restoration was Holsten Real State.

Perkins, Chatten & Hammond was the architecture firm in charge of the architectural design.

That being said, architecture is a complex discipline involving many professionals from different fields, without whom this building would have not been possible. We will surely be leaving out a lot of names here, but at the very least we know that there was one other part involved, that was YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago as the Main Developer.

The Lawson House can be categorized as an Art-deco building.

The Lawson House was completed in 1931, right when the Art Deco movement was at its peak, so it kind of went with the trend at that time.

From an aesthetic point of view, the facade features a limestone cladding on the lower three floors and red colored bricks from there on.