Chicago Board of Trade Building

1:2500 scale miniature paper model, about 2.75 inches tall when built

Holabird & Roche designed this art-deco skyscraper which towers dramatically over the end of LaSalle Street. At 609 feet it was the tallest building in Chicago when completed in 1930 and featured a popular glass observation deck. A silver statue of the goddess Ceres holding a sheaf of wheat and sack of corn keeps watch over the busy commodity traders below.

Read more:

• The Trading Floor Gallery is no longer open to general visitors, but can be seen on the Chicago Architecture Foundation tour
• Chicago Mercantile Exchange history of the Board of Trade
• A history of the hand signals used in open floor trading at the Board of Trade
• The Chicago Board of Trade Building, by Edward Keegan, Chicago Architecture Foundation, Pomegranate (2005)