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The Holden Block is a commercial building in the Near West Side of Chicago. Located at 1027 W. Madison Street, it was constructed in 1872 in the rush of reconstruction after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 by Charles C. P. Holden, who was a public servant prominent in the area. It is one of the few remaining examples of Italianate-designed commercial blocks in Chicago, and is the best preserved of such blocks in the Near West Side.