925 Green Bay

The beautiful Art Deco building at 925 Green Bay was designed by Puckey & Jenkins in 1927. They were notable architects in the Chicago area, designing several historic buildings in the city including the West City Trust & Savings Bank in Belmont Cragin, which has been identified by Landmarks Chicago as an historically significant structure.

In Winnetka, they designed several single-family homes, including 585 Arbor Vitae, 3 Golf Lane, 649 and 659 Locust, and the mixed-use building at 1056 Gage, to name a few.

This building was designed to house the Packard Motor Car Company, an automotive maker founded in 1899 in Detroit. Packard remained in the building until 1954. In fact, you can still see the Packard name carved into the stone at the top of the building, as well as the letter ‘P’ at the top of each column.

After Packard moved out in 1954 due to declining business, Chieftain Pontiac moved into the building and remained there until 1992. Then, the building turned away from the automotive industry when the Gap opened on the first floor in 1993, and the second floor was converted into apartments now called the Packard Loft Apartments.

In 2018, the first floor of the building became a Walgreens, but still holds the remnants of its automotive past in its large windows and Packard label. While the building does not have any designated historic status, it has been part of the business district in Hubbard Woods for almost a century.