The Midland Hotel

Now the "W" Hotel....Head west, after crossing La Salle St., to your right is the former Midland Hotel, now the "W Hotel" at 172 W Adams, Chicago

Now it is a luxury Starwood Hotel, the "W Chicago City Center Hotel" and its facade remained untouched.

The businessmen club named the Midland Club commissioned architect V. H. Vitzthun to build an Art Deco styled skyscraper. The tower combined offices and the club. But, the Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression that ensued upset the plan, most of the building's office space remained vacant. So in the mid 1930s, the club leased some of it to the Midland Hotel which ended up buying the building in the 1940s.

Info taken from www.theroute-66.com