Nearly 100 years
at 100 Walnut.
Built in 1928. Still standing. Still working. Murray Place Suites is the latest chapter in a building that has outlasted everything around it.
Built to last.
Proven right.
In 1928, Joseph Stuber and Henry Kuck built a four-story concrete and masonry warehouse at 100 Walnut Street to house their tinware manufacturing operation. They built it the way manufacturers built things in 1928: without shortcuts. The exposed brick and the bones of this building have outlasted every business that has ever occupied it.
In 1947, George Murray Sr. leased the ground floor and opened the George Murray Tire Company. His family purchased the building outright in 1971, and over the following decades it became home to Murray's Jewelers, the Illinois Antique Center, and a rotating cast of Peoria businesses. In the 1990s, the Murrays opened the upper floors to artists looking for affordable studio space in the city.
In 2014, the surrounding Peoria Warehouse Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places. The Murray family then undertook a full renovation of the 80,000 square foot building, creating Murray Place: retail and commercial space on the lower floors, 29 residential lofts on the upper floors, and a rooftop terrace overlooking the Illinois River. The brick stayed. Every window in the building was replaced with floor-to-ceiling factory-style panes built to match the character of the original structure. The character stayed.
Now the main floor has a new chapter. Murray Place Suites.
Peoria's Warehouse District.
Right where things are happening.
Murray Place sits at the intersection of Peoria's history and its current momentum. The Warehouse District has quietly become the most interesting part of the city: breweries, architecture firms, riverfront views, and a walkable core that corporate parks can't replicate.
Your business address is 100 Walnut Street.
That means something here.
Historic building.
Modern workspace.
The renovation preserved everything worth keeping: the brick, the character. New floor-to-ceiling windows brought in light without losing the industrial feel. And it added everything a working professional needs. 500 Mbps fiber internet, wired and wireless. Climate control. Furnished offices. Two boardrooms. Parking lot access.
Murray Place Suites is professionally managed, quietly operated, and built for the long term. Just like the building it sits in.