Editing Marshall Field's (section)

===State Street store===
Following the departure of Leiter, the retail store grew in importance. Although it remained a fraction of the size of the wholesale division, its opulent building and luxurious merchandise differentiated it from the other wholesale dry goods merchants in town. In 1887, [[Harry Gordon Selfridge]] was appointed to lead the retail store and headed it as it evolved into a modern [[department store]]. That same year, Field personally obtained Leiter's remaining interest in the 1879 Singer building and in 1888 started buying the buildings adjoining his for additional floor space.

[[File: Marshall Field Clock.jpg|thumb|left|The iconic clock at Marshall Field's State Street and Washington Street store]]

In 1892, the structures between the building on State Street and Wabash Avenue to the east were demolished, and architect [[Daniel H. Burnham]] and his firm [[D.H. Burnham & Company]] were commissioned to erect a new building in anticipation of the influx of visitors from the [[World's Columbian Exposition]] scheduled for 1893. The nine-story "Annex" at the northwest corner of Wabash and Washington Streets opened under the direction of Burnham associate [[Charles B. Atwood]]<ref name=CA1>[http://www.chicagoarchitecture.info/Building/1005/Marshall_Field's.php Chicago Architecture Info]. Retrieved August 20, 2006.</ref> in August 1893, towards the end of the Exposition. In 1897, the old 1879 store was rebuilt and had two additional floors added, while the first of Marshall Field's iconic Great Clocks was installed at the corner of State and Washington Streets on November 26.<ref name=MIC>[http://www.meetinchicago.com/meet_facts.html MeetinChicago.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928120848/http://www.meetinchicago.com/meet_facts.html |date=2007-09-28 }}. Retrieved August 20, 2006.</ref>

In 1901, Marshall Field & Company, previously a private partnership, was incorporated. Spurred on by Selfridge, Marshall Field razed the three buildings north of it that had been occupied since 1888, as well as the [[Central Music Hall (Chicago)|Central Music Hall]] at the southeast corner of State and Randolph Streets.A massive, twelve-story building fronting State Street opened in their place a year later, including a grand new entrance. In 1906, a third new building opened on Wabash Avenue north of the 1893 structure, then the oldest part of the store.

In the midst of the construction, Selfridge abruptly resigned from the company in 1904, buying rival store [[Schlesinger & Mayer]], only to sell it three months later to [[Carson's|Carson Pirie Scott]]. Schlesinger & Mayer had commissioned the [[Louis Sullivan]]-designed Carson Pirie Scott Company Building (now known as the [[Sullivan Center]]) in 1899. After trying retirement, Selfridge went on to establish [[Selfridges]] in [[London, England|London]].