In the Next Neighborhood

Our neighbor told us about a store in Lincoln Park that is going out of business and said she thought we’d like to check out. So we took a drive there last week and we drove by a place I had seen from the bus a while ago and really wanted to check out. This week when we went to the store again (they are marking things down more each week and actually giving things away so we’re going to keep stopping by) we walked up to check it out. The Egyptian inspired building I had glimpsed from the bus turned out to be The Reebie Storage Warehouse which was built in the early 1920’s. I couldn’t get a photo of the whole building so here are two from a website called Public Art in Chicago which has a lot of information about the building that was inspired by a trip to Egypt and another Egyptian Revival Storage Building in California.

The storage company is still in business but they don’t use the front of the building anymore. In this photo the doors are closed and there is a sign directing people to the back but the front is now home to the New Elephant Resale Shop of Chicago so we got to go inside and see the interior Egyptian details as well. Unfortunately although the store had a sign that stated facemasks were required and the Ramses II statues in the front were wearing them the store’s customers were not so we didn’t spend much time looking at the resale goods.