It can also be said that the company extends a hearty invitation to the merchants in this line to avail themselves of this opportunity at any time. However, it can be said most emphatically that any dealer visiting Chicago can gain a vast amount of information which he can use to a great advantage in his own business by studying the systems evolved by Lyon & Healy during their fifty years of experience in the trade. It is impossible within the compass of an article such as this to give any idea of the remarkable ingenuity shown in the display of goods, or of the manner in which the wholesale and retail stocks have been arranged with a view of expediting handling and the filling of orders. The four upper stories, with the exception of a few studios extending along the Wabash avenue and Jackson boulevard frontages, are occupied by various other retail and wholesale lines of musical merchandise.
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The administrative offices and the counting room are found on the fourth floor, together with the wonderfully organized music roll department, while the small goods, band instruments, old violins and special sales rooms devoted to the Lyon & Healy harp are on the fifth floor. A number of other well-known makes of pianos are also shown. Furthermore, the Lyon & Healy and the Washburn pianos, both products of the company’s own factory, have a most adequate representation. Several beautiful display rooms are, of course, devoted to the Steinway exclusively, while the Aeolian line of Pianola-Pianos and the Weber and the Steck are beautifully housed. Some idea of the beauty of the reception room is given in the wash drawing accompanying this article, but the principal feature is the tremendous vista furnished by the large number of beautiful grands, uprights and players, which can be obtained even from the elevators, as all of the partitions of the various rooms are of glass, thus causing no obstacle to the vision. The second floor is devoted to Victor records, retail and wholesale, and the third to the display and sale of pianos. The latter is an acoustical triumph and this has been remarked upon by many experts including several officers of the Victor Talking Machine Co., who were in Chicago last week.
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The first floor is devoted to Victrolas, sheet music and music books, while in the rear with entrances through the store from Wabash Avenue and also from Jackson Boulevard, is the Lyon & Healy Concert Hall. The corridors are finished with light Toanazzo marble wainscot, the floors are of marble tile, and the woodwork is of walnut. The entrances on Jackson boulevard and Wabash avenue are finished in walnut, white marble, gold leaf, and white enamel. It is a nine story steel structure, faced with pink granite and gray terra cotta, and follows the Italian Renaissance in the design of its principal facades, with the introduction of the Corinthian order at the upper stories. Healy, vice president and general manager of the corporation.
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The building was erected under the personal supervision of Marquette A. Even now, however, this feeling is no doubt being replaced by one of elation because of the artistic triumphs and of the superb equipment, convenience and personal comfort of the new structure. It can be easily understood that they must have experienced emotions akin to home-sickness when they left the old building at Wabash avenue and Adams street, which had been occupied by Lyon & Healy for nearly half of their half century career. The new Lyon & Healy building, which stands at the greatest piano corner in the world, has been aptly described as “an expression in steel and stone of the best ideas for the display and sale of musical merchandise which have been evolved through the cumulative experience of half a century.”Īctual figures show that the Lyon & Healy organization includes no less than 138 people who have been with the house all the way from ten to fifty years.
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Prominent Piano Men From All Sections of the Country Attend Formal Opening of the New Headquarters of This Famous House in Chicago-A Description of the BuildingĬHICAGO, IL., May 22.-The formal opening of Lyon & Healy’s store and headquarters building at the northeast corner of Jackson boulevard and Wabash avenue, makes this one of the important weeks in the history of the music trade of Chicago.Ĭoming as it does so soon, comparatively speaking, after the completion and placing in full operation of the immense new Lyon & Healy factory on Fullerton avenue, it bears witness not only to the progressiveness of the great house, but to the remarkable latter-day development in the piano and musical industries of this, the great western trade centre, in these lines. Opening of Palatial New Home of Lyon & Healy Location: Northeast corner of Jackson boulevard and Wabash avenue