Sears, Roebuck and Company Store

…of Montgomery Ward); and the second Leiter Building (1889–90), which became Sears, Roebuck and Co.’s Loop store.

…Leiter Building II (1891; later Sears, Roebuck and Co.’s main retail store) and Burnham and Root’s Monadnock Building (1891), both in Chicago, went beyond the Wainwright Building and were the first modern commercial buildings to demonstrate in their designs formal simplicity and ornamental abstinence, resulting from a new form of…