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Photo Details

'2517 / J.W. Taylor, Chicago, 151 Monr[oe St]' [cut off]

'1754'

'7061 IWT / Union Club Chi'

'8025 / J W D'

'2537 LWT.'

‘155’

‘2399’

-

4001 (deleted)

'Pullman. 2. arcade from N.W. / J.W. Taylor, Publisher / 146 La Salle St, Chicago'

'Pullman. [...] detail of South Entrance. / J.W. Taylor [Publisher] / 146 La Salle St, Chicago'

'L W - Taylor - Photo Chi''853 / Pullman Bldg / JWT''[the 'L' is probably a 'J' in reverse, written backwards on the neg]

'2103'

'852'

'272'

'2117'

-

'5069 Taylor'

'8023 / J.W.T'

Inscriptions

obv: 'Chicago' rev: 'Chambers of Commerce / Staircase Chicago / W.W. Buffington A [cut off]'

obv: 'Ball Room Chicago' rev: 'R[..]sleys Ballroom / Chicago'

obv: 'Union League Club Chicago' rev: 'Union League Club'

obv: 'Chicago' rev: -

obv: 'Chicago' rev: 'Chicago'

obv: 'Chicago' rev: 'Chicago / Mullet + Ristau[...]'

obv: 'Chicago' rev: 'Chicago / by Silsbee'

obv: 'Kinsleys Resaurant Chicago' rev: 'Chicago / Kinsleys Resaurant'

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

obv: 'Pullman Chicago' rev: -

obv: 'Pullman Buildings Chicago' rev: 'Pullman Buildings / Chicago / S.S. Beman / Architects'

obv: 'Pullman Chicago' rev: 'Pulman [sic] Bldg / S.S. Beman / Chicago'

obv: 'Pulman [sic] Blds Chicago' rev: 'Pulman [sic] Bldgs / Chicago'

obv: 'Pullman Chicago' rev: 'Pulman [sic] Block / Chicago / Mr Beeman Arch'

obv: 'Chicago' rev: 'Pulman [sic] Bdgs / Chicago / S Beman Arch'

obv: 'Pulman [sic] Block Chicago' rev: 'Chicago / Pulman [sic] Block / Beeman [sic] Ar'

obv: 'Palmer House Chicago' 'No 2' [plus Kilburn's stamp]rev: 'Palmer House / Barber Shop / Chicago' [plus Kilburn's stamp]

obv: 'Palmer House Chicago' 'No 3' [plus Kilburn's stamp]rev: [Kilburn's stamp]

Identification and Refs

Chicago: Chamber of Commerce: could be Baumann & Huehl's Chamber of Commerce building, 1888-9, dem 1926 [illustrated in Condit, Rise of the Skyscraper, p 65; also Randall p 49, giving the construction date as 1890 - which cannot be correct - and the demolition as 1928].

Chicago: R[..]sleys Ballroom

Chicago: Chicago, Union League Club, 110-114 Jackson St, by W L B Jenney 1887 [Randall, pp 111, 158]

Chicago

Chicago: by Silsbee, probably before 1885 [ref Payne]

Chicago: house by Silsbee. Could be Potter Palmer house, 1874, or J L Silsbee house, 1889.

Chicago: Kinsley Building, 105-107 Adams St, by F L Charnley (or Charnley & Clay), 1885 [Lowe, p 188; Randall pp 110, 165]. See also no 69.

Chicago, house

Chicago: Pullman Arcade

Chicago: Pullman Building [offices], 200 South Michigan Avenue, sw cnr Adams St, by S S Beman, 1884 (replaced by the Borg-Warner Building in 1958) [Condit, Rise of the Skyscraper, p 203; Bach & Wolfson, p 15; Randall p 100; 1883-4, pp 49-50, Pullmania web site]

Chicago: Pullman Building [offices]

Chicago: Palmer House

Chicago: Palmer House III, 17 East Monroe St, by J M Van Osdel & C W Palmer, 1874-5 (first fireproof hotel), replaced 1925 [Bach & Wolfson, p 44; Witheys, pp 616-7; Bruegmann, pp 16-18; Zukowsky, pp 268-9].

Content

three levels of staircase, climbing around open metal lift cages, gallery with floors in ?lino.

end of a tall room with a corner fireplace and a gallery over.

dining room with table in foreground, Byzantine columns, inglenook and fireplace, bar.

end of a room, windows flanking a fireplace with a plain brick rectangular surround, & Franco-Byzantine superstructure

dining room with deep coved ceiling, interesting glazed tile chimneypiece and ornate wall clock

hall with stair at one end, fireplace with highly elaborate Gothic arcaded superstructure

end of room with bookcases, chimneybreast flanked by abacus top screens, rectangular fireplace and tiled surround, classical timber overmantel with mirrors

rectangular corner fireplace with sub-Talbertian surround, no chimneypiece over, papered walls

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

identical view, slightly clearer

identical view, substantially better contrast

detail of entrance to arcade in previous building, with an arcaded corbel table of an almost Furnessian character across the bressummer

corner view of 9 st building with angle turret, mainly segmental arch openings

detail within main archway of previous, looking towards the exterior: square glazed skylights, Sullivanesque ornament

archway rto stairwell, apparently within the previous bldg

detail of grd fl arcade & first floor windows with one edge of main arch

interior space with glazed screen & doors, glazed roof lights, balustraded edges of two light or stair wells

same as previous

Large barber's saloon with mirrors down either side & facing armchairs, central columns, elaborate Gothic marble stand with basins

Large reception rm with elaborate shallow relief decoration on ceiling, ?stencilled wall surfaces; Corinthian pilastrated piers at one side, occasional chairs &c.

Architects

Baumann & Huehl [Edward Baumann (1828-1929) and Harris W Huehl (1862-1919)] [Condit, Rise of the Skyscraper, p 133; Randall, pp 49, 308 &c]

Architects

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

Architects

A B Mullet & Company [partnership from 1880 to 1890 of Alfred B Mullett (1834-1890) & his sons Thomas A Mullett (1862-1935) and Frederick M Mullett (d 1924)] [Witheys, pp 432-3] [Lewis & Morgan, p 142. See generally Lawrence Wodehouse, 'Alfred B. Mullett and his French Style Government Buildings', Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians,XXXIXI (March 1972), pp 23-7].

Joseph Lyman Silsbee (1845-1913) [Witheys give his forename as James; Randall gives the birth date as 1848]. [Witheys, pp 554-6; Scully, Shingle Style, pp 86n, 158; Lewis & Morgan, p 151; Jordy, p 70; Gilbert, passim; Randall p 374]

F L Charnley OR Charnley & Clay [William Clay] [Lowe, p 188]

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

Charles W Palmer (1848-1927) [Bach & Wolfson, p 44, refer to C M Palmer] [Witheys, p 453].