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Sears, Roebuck Building

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1925. 312 E. Broad St.

The expansive Chicago windows of this straightforward steel-frame, brick-veneered building are not surprising given the Chicago origins of the Sears firm. Richmond architects may have designed it, but the plans may also have come from a Chicago firm.

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Richard Guy Wilson et al.
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Richard Guy Wilson et al., "Sears, Roebuck Building", [Richmond, Virginia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/VA-01-RI184.

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Buildings of Virginia: Tidewater and Piedmont, Richard Guy Wilson and contributors. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002, 228-228.

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