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Photo Details

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J.W. Taylor, Chicago, 161 Monroe St '72'

4001 (deleted)

‘2204’

‘820’

'2494'

‘1660’

‘220’

'1027'

'2891'

'2536 IWT'' [?JWT]

‘2059’

'115' [twice]

Inscriptions

obv: 'Honolulu'rev: -

obv: 'Royal Palace Honolulu'rev: 'King's Palace Honolulu'

obv: 'Royal Palace Honolulu'rev: -

obv: 'Honolulu'rev: -

obv: 'Honolulu'rev: 'Honolulu'

obv: 'Chicago'rev: '?B Spaulding Chicago'

obv: 4002rev: 'Fleishman's Chicago Cadell Archt;

obv: 'House Insurance Offices Chicago'rev: 'House Insurance Chicago W.L.B. Jenney''

obv: 'Chicago'rev: 'Chicago Treat + Foltz ?Co'

obv: 'Chicago' rev: 'Chicago'

obv: 'Chicago' rev: 'Chicago / S.S. Bemans'

obv: 'Chicago' rev: 'Chicago / Burling and Whitehouse'

obv: 'Chicago' rev: 'Chicago / Cobb + Frost Archt'

obv: 'Chicago' rev: 'Chicago'

obv: 'Rookery Bld Chicago' [plus Kilburn's stamp]rev: 'Rookery Bldg / Chicago / Burnham + Root Arch' [plus Kilburn's stamp]

obv: 'Hall Mr Wills [sic] Residence Chicago'rev: 'Chicago / Mr Wills ?[sic] enter + Hall / ?Clay Ar'

Identification and Refs

Church, Honolulu

Palace, Honolulu

Honolulu

Commercial street in Honolulu

Albert G Spalding house, 4926 South Woodlawn, Kenwood, c 1885, dem 1903.
Info from Susan O'Connor

Chicago, house

Chicago: Home Insurance Building, La Salle & Adams Sts, by W L B Jenney 1892, dem 1931. Turak, William Le Baron Jenney, pp 237-263

Chicago, house, possibly by Treat & Foltz. Could be one of (A) Charles B Fawell house, 120 East Pearson St, just west of Lake Shore Drive, 1882; (B) Charles Libby house, Michigan Ave; (C) George Armour house, Prairie Ave; (D) Martin Ryerson house, Drexel Ave [Randall, p 375. Witheys, pp 213-4, 605-6]

Chicago, house

Chicago, house: ? by S S Beman. Probably one of (A) Jones/General Torrance / Rockefeller-McCormick house, Lake Shore Dr & Bellevue Pl, (B) Robert Todd Lincoln house, 1234 Lake Shore Dr (after his return from 4 years as US Minister to GB); (C) W W Kimball house, 1801 Prairie Ave, 1887 [ref Witheys, pp 49-50]

Chicago, house: ? by Burling & Whitehouse [?Nickerson house, 40 East Erie St, 1883; or Cudahy house, 23rd St & Michigan Ave, remodelled as a hotel]

Chicago: by Cobb & Frost [but not the Potter Palmer mansion, ref Payne]

Chicago

Chicago: The Rookery, 209 South La Salle St, by Burnham & Root, 1885-6.

Chicago: M D Wells house, by Wheelock & Clay, c 1889 [Lewis & Morgan, p 133, ref Inland Architect and News Record, III (March 1889), p 23]. See also no 95.

Content

Gothic twin-towered brick church, ?c1875 at end of street with balconies

palace, as seen today, but with much open ground around

palace, viewed from one end, with a parallel 2 st building not apparent in previous view

river scene with boats & huts

unsealed road or driveway in an avenue of palms

3 children posed under a traveller's palm / tree, adjoining a 2 st building

view from above of a street of mainly 2 st commercial buildings, mountains in the background; on corners of transverse street, '1881 / Wilder & Co' and '[-] W. Mac[Far]lane [-]'

hallway with base of staircase, view to ?dining room, Aesthetic/Japonais taste

triangular hall, lower part of staircase with Sullivanesque newel post, timber chimneypiece & grate set in tiles

Home Insurance: upper landing of public staircase with Sullivanesque / Art Nouveau metalwork & glazing at main entrance

heavily timbered stair hall with embossed paper

hall with stair off, broad arches, timber panelled ceiling

hall with stair at back, elaborate quasi-Moresque decoration, Sullivanesque fireplace in foreground

hall with tiled floor, stair and cotton reel frieze in coarse Aesthetic Movt taste, bizarre gasalier

heavily timbered hall with stair, Frenchified chimneypiece, shiny striated paper in wall and panels of ceiling

fully timbered hall with stair in very advanced taste, horizontal wall and door panelling, rectangular chimneypiece with minimal ornament

hall with stair, papered walls, chimneypiece on turned supports

the lobby, skylight, and staircase with fantastic electroliers on the newel posts

heavily papered hall with eclectic timber staircase

Architects

William le Baron Jenney (1832-1907) Chicago [Randall, pp 27-8 & passim; Witheys, pp 324-5; Condit, 'Jenney'; Turak, William Le Baron Jenney]

Treat & Foltz [Samuel Atwater Treat (1839-1910) & Frederick [Fritz] L Foltz (1843-1916)] [Witheys, pp 213-4, 273-4, 605-6].

Architects

Solon Spencer Beman (1853-1914) [Witheys, pp 49-50; Jordy, p 70; Randall, p 360]

Burling & Whitehouse [Edward Burling [1819-1892] & Francis M Whitehouse (1848-1938)] [Condit, Rise of the Skyscraper,pp 40, 206, 217; see also Witheys, pp 96, 653-4; Randall p 361].

Cobb & Frost [Henry Ives Cobb (1859-1931) & Charles Sumner Frost (1856-1931)] [Witheys, pp 128-9, 224]. [Condit, Rise of the Skyscraper,p 80]

Architects

Burnham & Root [partnership from 1873 to 1891 of Daniel Hudson Burnham (1846-1912) & John Wellborn Root (1850-1892) [Witheys, pp 96-8, 525-6]; Randall, p 30; [Witheys p 125]. [Condit, Rise of the Skyscraper,pp 63, 113]

Wheelock & Clay [Otis Leonard Wheelock (1816-c1886) & William Wilson Clay (1849-1926)] [Condit, Rise of the Skyscraper, pp 63, 113; Randall, p 362; Witheys pp 125, 168]