Curt Teich and Company Building

The Curt Teich and Company Building is a historic building at 1733-55 W. Irving Park Road in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The building was the headquarters and printing press of Curt Teich and Company, one of the first postcard companies and a major influence on the form's development. While the original building's construction date is unclear, the company moved to the building in 1910; a large addition was placed on the building in 1922. Teich traveled throughout the country, and eventually to other countries in North America, to take photographs for his postcards; his travels made postcards available from any sizable town, rather than just major tourist destinations, and produced a historical record of American towns in the process. The company was also responsible for several innovations in the printing and coloring process.^[2]

Curt Teich and Company Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	1733-55 W. Irving Park Rd., Chicago, Illinois
Coordinates	41°57′14″N 87°40′25″W
Area	less than one acre
NRHP reference No.	90000340[1]
Added to NRHP	March 7, 1990

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 7, 1990.^[1]

Curt Teich and Company postcard of their own headquarters