The Sheridan – Aldine Apartments, a 17-story, Italian Renaissance-inspired structure, was part of the real estate empire of the Edith Rockefeller McCormick Trust, which purchased the land in 1925. Mrs. McCormick, daughter of John D. Rockefeller, lived for a time in the building. Edwin Krenn headed the trust’s property development section and also performed occasional design work. Krenn & Dato, another arm of the trust, provided the $1.2 million mortgage and handled rentals and sales. Like many other development operations, it all collapsed in the 1930s.

The principal architects, Maurice B. Rissman and Leo S. Hirschfeld, devised a series of significant Chicago apartment buildings, several of them quite large by contemporary standards. 3300 Lake Shore Drive, according to one early announcement, was intended to sell some 27 apartments, with the remainder of the 80 or so units to be rented. Two massive entrances—one off Aldine with an immense hanging lantern and the other on Lake Shore Drive—pierce the rusticated stone base, and stone urns cap the balustrade topping the building. The corner bays enclosing the large sun porches echo the motifs of neighboring buildings. Today, 3300 is home to luxury condominiums.