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Photo Details

'8020 / J W Taylor'

'8022 / J W Taylor' 'Palmer House'

'848' 'J. W. Taylor, Chicago, 151 Monroe St'

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Printed mount: 'Runnels & Stateler ' No. 957 Market Street, San Francisco, Cal.'

Runnels & Stateler printed mount.

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'1082'

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'2856'

'1404'

'B 2379 Dining Room, Palace Hotel''Faber Photo., San Francisco'

'1421'

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'4021'

‘5005’

‘2652’

'2091 J.W. Taylor's Architectural Photographic Series, 146 La Salle Street, Chicago'

Inscriptions

obv: 'Palmer House Chicago' 'No 6' [plus Kilburn's stamp]rev: 'Palmer House / Chicago' [plus Kilburn's stamp]

obv: 'Palmer House Chicago' 'No 1' [plus Kilburn's stamp]rev: 'Palmer House / Chicago' [plus Kilburn's stamp]

obv: 'Oriental Hall'rev: 'Oriental Hall / Chicago'

obv: 'Oriental Hall'rev: 'Oriental Hall'

obv: 'Maison Riché America' 'E.G. Kilburn 20. / Melbourne'rev: 'Maison Riché / Cor. Geary + Dupont' [plus printed material - see below]

obv: 'Library Buckley [sic]' 'E.G. Kilburn / Melbourne 13'rev: '#29 / State University Library / Berkeley' [plus printed material - see below]

obv: 'Olympic Club Gymnasium' 'E.G. Kilburn 19 / Melbourne'rev: 'Olympic Club / Gymnasium' [plus printed material - see below]

obv: 'America' 'E.G. Kilburn / Melbourne / 9'rev: 'J.J. O'Brien' '#125 / Establishment of / J.J. OBrien + Co / Dry Goods' [plus printed material - see below]

obv: 'West Hotel Mineapolis [sic]'rev: 'West Hotel / Mineapolis [sic]' / Wm Buffington / Archt.'

obv: 'New York Life'rev: 'New York. Life'

obv: 'San Francisco'rev: 'Diamond Palace / Montgomerie Street / San Francisco'

obv: 'Indianapolis'rev: 'Indianapolis State / Interior / C.D. May'

obv: 'Malden Library Mass.'rev: 'Malden Library Mass / By Richardson'

obv: 'America'rev: -

obv: 'Military Rooms. New York'rev: 'New York / 7th Regiment Army

obv: 'Minneapolis'rev: 'Minneapolis / By [?Sayler]'

obv: 'City Hall Pittsburg [sic]'rev: 'Pittsburg Pa. / City Hall / By H.H. Richardson'

obv: 'Union Depôt. Indianapolis'rev: 'Indianapolis Depôt / Union Depôt. '

obv: 'No 7' 'America' [plus Kilburn's stamp]rev: 'Milwaukee' [plus Kilburn's stamp]

obv: 'State House Hartford USA.'rev: 'Hartford. Conn / State House'

Identification and Refs

Chicago: Palmer House

Chicago: Oriental Hall, American Express Building, 76 Monroe Street, by H H Richardson 1884, decoration probably by Thomas Moses & David Strong of Sosman and Landis, ref Moore, Masonic Temples, p 81.

Chicago: Oriental Hall, American Express Building

San Francisco: Maison Riché, corner Geary & Dupont Sts.

Berkeley: Library of the University of California at Berkeley

Chicago: Olympic Club Gymnasium.

Chicago: J.J. O'Brien store.

Minneapolis: West Hotel, by L S Buffington.

? New York Life building.

San Francisco: Diamond Palace, Montgomerie St

Indianapolis State Capitol, by Edwin May

Massachusetts: Converse Memorial Library, Malden (near Boston), by H H Richardson 1884- [Van Rensselaer, pp 78, 81, 83]

San Francisco, Palace Hotel

New York: 7th Regiment headquarters

Minneapolis: ?hotel

Pittsburgh: probably Alleghany County Buildings, by H.H. Richardson, 1883-8 [Van Rensselaer, pp 89-91]

Indianapolis: Union Depôt

Milwaukee: ?hotel

Hartford, Connecticut: State House

Content

Dining room with glazed dome over square central area, supported on Corinthian columns. Same as the erngraving from The Palmer House Illustrated,1876, reproduced in Bruegmann, p 18.

Semicircular library or writing room with Moresque decoration, fully glazed ceiling, stained glass partition panels: tables with writing surfaces, other chairs in line facing an arched niche with a Mogul alfiz.

Long room with Moresque decoration, billowing vaults carried on multifoil arches and brackets.

Same room, looking towards an organ at one end.

Dining room in two compartments with a central column, sub-Moresque geometric filler paper and tiled dado, furnished with multiple round tables.

Three storey circular space, two levels with iron columns and balcony, radiating bookstacks; third level with balustraded gallery.

Two storey high gymnsium with open timber trussed roof & balcony all around upper level.

Large columnar room with skylight, banks of drawers with bolts of cloth &c on top - more suggestive of mercery than dry goods.

Tall dining room with Moresque decoration.

Looks like a periodicals reading room, 2 storeys high with marble colums and upper gallery along one side.

Large jeweller's shop with mirrors, glass cabinets, crystal ?gaseliers. coved & panelled ceiling with trompe l'oeil painting.

Tall hall filled with tables, each taking two seats, and at one end a raised desk and seat.

Elegant 2 storey height timber barrel-vaulted library interior with balconies to upper level stacks.

Long dining room with Roman Doric ordonnance & coffered ceiling

Barrel vaulted library with mezzanine gallery & shelving. metal screens.

Large dining room with coved and panelled ceiling, somewhat Moresque decoration.

Interior view near base of stair, with very simple semicircular arches, barrel vaults and cross vaults, ornamented only with foliated capitals and impost band.

Public room with teller's window, a central seat around a column, and a screen with a Mozarab arcade [apparently based upon S Miguel de la Escalada].

Bar and dining area: a large disc behind the bar bears the letters 'Franz ... ann'.

Tall court room with Gothic windows, timber gallery.

Architects

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

Architects

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

Leroy Sunderland Buffington (1847-1931) [Witheys, pp 49-50].

Edwin May (1824-1880) [Witheys, p 401].

Henry Hobson Richardson (1838-1886) [Van Rensselaer, passim; Witheys, pp 508-510]