Editing Marshall Field's (section)

===After the Great Fire===
In October 1873, Field and Leiter returned to State Street at Washington, opening a new five-story store at their old location, which they now leased from the [[Singer Sewing Machine Company]]; Palmer had sold the land site to finance his own rebuilding activities. This store was expanded in 1876, only to be destroyed by fire again in November 1877. Ever tenacious, Field and Leiter had a new temporary store opened by the end of the month, this time at a lakefront exposition hall which they temporarily leased from the city, located at what is now the site of the [[Art Institute of Chicago]]. Meanwhile, the Singer company had speculatively built an even larger, six-story building on the ruins of their old 1873 store, which, after some contention, was personally bought by Field and Leiter. Field, Leiter & Company then reclaimed their traditional location at the northeast corner of State and Washington for the last time in April 1879.

[[File:Marshall Field Warehouse Store.jpg|thumb|150px|right|Marshall Field's Wholesale Store at Franklin Street, circa 1890]]

In January 1881, Field, with the support of his junior partners, bought out [[Levi Leiter]], renaming the business '''Marshall Field & Company'''. As Palmer had before, Leiter retired to tend his significant real estate investments, which included commissioning the [[Second Leiter Building]] at State Street and Van Buren in 1891 to house [[Siegel, Cooper & Co.|Siegel, Cooper & Company]]. In 1932, this building (known as one of the earliest steel-framed commercial buildings built and still standing in the U.S., along with the [[Equitable Building (Baltimore)|Equitable Building]] in [[Baltimore]]) was leased to the later famous nationwide mail-order firm [[Sears, Roebuck & Company]].

In 1887, the seven-story, [[Romanesque architecture|Romanesque-styled]] [[Marshall Field's Wholesale Store]], designed by [[Henry Hobson Richardson]], opened on Franklin Street between Quincy and Adams. The wholesale division sold merchandise in bulk to smaller merchants throughout the central and western United States, and did six times the sales volume of the local retail store. Chicago's location at the nexus of the country's railroads and [[Great Lakes]] shipping made it the center of the dry goods wholesaling business by the 1870s, with Field's largest rival being [[John V. Farwell|John V. Farwell, Sr.]], his former partner from before the war. It was the scale of the profits generated by the [[John G. Shedd]]-led<ref name =JAC /> wholesale division that made Marshall Field the richest man in Chicago, as well as one of the richest in the country.