steel frame Chicago School/Beaux Arts design by Holabird & Roche, Chicago • in 1923 became home of Davis Dry Goods, subsidiary of Marshall Field & Co. • taken over by Goldblatt's, 1936 • Goldblatt's store closed, 1981 • purchased for $10MM by city of Chicago, 1992 • controversial proposal to convert building to city's central library • purchased by DePaul University, 1989 • $65MM renovation by Daniel P. Coffey and Associates • now DePaul Center, mixed use National Register #89002025, 1989 • Loop Historic District, National Register #98001351, 1998