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The Palmer House – A Hilton Hotel is a historic hotel in Chicago's Loop area. It is a member of the Historic Hotels of America [ 1 ] program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation . The first Palmer House opened in 1870, and the present building (the third) in 1925.
The Palmer Mansion was a large private home constructed 1882–1885 at 1350 N. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois. Once the largest private residence in the city, it was located in the Near North Side neighborhood, facing Lake Michigan . [ 6 ]
The Hammer / Palmer Mansion is a historic mansion at 3654-3656 S. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in the Bronzeville section of Chicago. It was designed by William Wilson Clay of the firm Wheelock and Clay ( Otis Leonard Wheelock ) in the Queen Anne style and built in 1885.
The Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois, historic hotel; Col. Gustavius A. Palmer House, Crystal Lake, Illinois, listed on the NRHP in McHenry County, Illinois; Hiram Palmer House, Farmington, Illinois, listed on the NRHP in Fulton County, Illinois; Dana-Palmer House, Cambridge, Massachusetts, listed on the NRHP in Middlesex County ...
Potter Palmer was one of the early landowners in the neighborhood. While most of high society lived in mansions on Prairie Avenue, Palmer began to buy up land on the north end, which was only lightly populated and still mostly swamp after the Great Chicago Fire in 1871. Interest in the area increased when Lake Shore Drive was opened in 1875 ...
Palmer co-founded the Nunda Masonic Lodge on October 2, 1855. His house was built in 1858, designed by local architect Andrew Jackson Simon. When the lodge was destroyed in a fire in 1868, his house was used as a temporary lodge. Palmer's son John H. Palmer would become a major figure in the lodge, serving six stints as the lodge Master. Col.
Caroline Palmer Clarke lived until 1860 and it was during this time that the house was known as the "Widow Clarke's House". After her husband's death, Caroline Clarke established "Clarke's addition to Chicago" by selling all but 3 acres (12,000 m 2 ) of the original land that went with the house.
John Mills Van Osdel (July 31, 1811 – December 21, 1891) [1] was an American architect who is considered the first Chicago architect. [2] He is considered a peer of the most prominent architects in the history of Chicago. He has also done significant work throughout Illinois and the Midwest, although much of it no longer exists. [vague]