It is situated at 1600 North Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago.  It is located at the bustlimg six corners intersection of North,Milwaukee and Damen Avenues. It is a 12 story  203 feet tall Art Deco Building. It is clad in limestone light colored brick, and concrete.It was built in 1928- 1929.  It was renovated 2015–2017. The building was designed by Perkins, Chatted and Hammond.  The building was commissioned by a building corporation formed by businessman Joseph Noel. He had previously used the site for his bank Northwest Savings Bank

    The building was originally marketed to high level doctors, dentists and attorneys.  In the period from the 1930’s to the 2000’s the building served as private office space.  By the 1980’s it became known as the Coyote  building and it housed the Tower Coyote Gallery.  This was the most prominent tenant of the Northwest Tower during  its era as an arts colony in the 1980’s.  It was founded  by Jim Happy Delpeche  an art dealer who is widely credited with establishing the building as a central hub for Wicker Park arts. 

2008

     The Chicago zoning board approved plan to convert the Northwest Tower building into a hotel.  Unfortunately progress on this project was halted due to financial issues.

Renovation period 2015 to 2017.

     The renovation project restarted with a design by Gruopo Habita with input from Artunovich and Nicolas Schuybrock  Architects

     Opening in 2017

     The building opened as the Robey Hotel (previous name of Damen Avenue.  There were 69 rooms.  Cafe Robeyw was a hotel restaurant serving French American food.