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| Essential
Architecture- Chicago Far South Pullman District |
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architect |
Solon S. Beman |
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location |
Roughly bounded by 104th, 115th, Cottage
Grove and Langley Sts. |
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date |
1880-94 |
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style |
Queen Anne |
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construction |
Brick |
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type |
Neighbourhood |
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Instead of locating his factory for building railroad sleeping cars in
Chicago, George M. Pullman built a town of his own outside the city
limits — the first model, planned industrial community in the United
States. Pullman contained everything necessary for a self- sustaining
town: civic, public, commercial, recreational and factory buildings, as
well as a variety of housing types, all carefully placed in landscaped
surroundings designed by Nathan Barrett. Later absorbed into the city
Pullman once avoided, the residential buildings began to be sold to
private owners in 1907. The company sold the original factory site in
1958. |
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links |
With special thanks to the City of
Chicago website,
www.egov.cityofchicago.org , for much of the info on this page.
Photos copyright City of Chicago. |
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