Main entry:

Drury, John, 1898-1972.

Title & Author:

Old Chicago houses / by John Drury.

Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [1975]
©1941.

Description:

xvii, 518 pages : illustrations, black and white photographs ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Part I. Pioneer days ; Introduction -- The Widow Clarke's house -- The eleven-mile house -- The Sheldon house -- "Long John" Wentworth house -- Part II. Old Prairie Avenue ; Introduction -- A great-grandmother's home -- The Fernando Jones mansion -- The palace of a merchant prince -- Last of the old guard -- An architectural shrine -- A French château -- Part III. Millionaires' row ; Introduction -- A South side mansion -- Here lived "Bet-a-Million" Gates -- A packer's residence -- Where presidents were guests -- The house of a thousand curios -- A transformed residence -- Part IV. The near North side ; Introduction -- The Joseph T. Ryerson house -- Period house -- The Cyrus H. McCormick mansion -- Mayor Rumsey's residence -- The R. Hall McCormick mansion -- Queen Anne architecture -- "Nickerson's Marble Palace" -- The L. Hamilton McCormick residence -- Part V. On the Gold Coast ; Introduction -- The castle on the drive -- A house of celebrities -- The mansion of a social queen -- The home of Chicago's "First Citizen" -- Georgian style -- The home of Lincoln's son -- Part VI. West of the river ; Introduction -- Hull-House -- In Brighton Park -- Where lived a lumber king -- A "Garden City" survivor -- Chicago's "Forgotten House" -- Boyhood home of "The Glorifier" -- Walnut interior -- The B. F. Ferguson home -- Twin mansions -- An Ashland Boulevard residence -- Part VII. In old Lake View ; Introduction -- A west ridge farmhouse -- The Turner homestead -- Early Ravenswood home -- The house on "The Ridge" -- A Swedish-American's home -- Edgewater's first brick house -- The Frederick Sulzer home -- A Hermitage Avenue house -- Part VIII. Early Hyde Park ; Introduction -- Hyde Park's oldest house -- A composer's cottage -- Home of a "Painter of Presidents" -- Swords and books -- The Faulkner house -- Senator Trumbull's house -- The abode of Colonel Jacobs -- An Oakland mansion -- The Charles L. Hutchinson home -- "The Treasure House" -- A French Gothic mansion -- Part IX. Along "The Ridge" ; Introduction -- A Morgan Park home -- The house on "The Hill" -- The Smith farmhouse -- An Irish castle -- Part X. Near Lincoln Park ; Introduction -- Policeman Bellinger's cottage -- A congressman's home -- The Archbishop's residence -- Once a suburban home -- Overlooking the park -- Baroque style -- Part XI. The township of Jefferson ; Introduction -- The Falconer farmhouse -- An early homestead -- A link with the past -- The house in Haussen Court -- Survivor of pioneer days -- The Brown house -- Norwood Park's first house -- Association House -- The Spikings homestead -- A Polish-American landmark -- Part XII. Englewood and vicinity ; Introduction -- A country estate -- An Englewood show place -- Baronial tastes -- Home of a pioneer woman -- Part XIII. Literary landmarks ; Introduction -- Where Ernest Poole was reared -- Carl Sandburg's home -- An author's boyhood home -- Home of "The Poet of Nature" -- A literary salon -- Part XIV. Here and there ; Introduction -- A Civil War landmark -- A pioneer judge's home -- House of the arts -- An educator's home -- An Auburn Park home -- A house in Ellis Park -- Among the elms of Groveland Park -- Shrine of the tons -- Part XV. Toward the future ; Introduction -- The Heath house -- "Modernism" in the nineties -- Where Louis Sullivan lived -- An "old" modern house.

Summary:

The late John Drury's "Old Chicago Houses" was originally published in 1941 as a collection of his articles in the Chicago Daily News. He was not a professional historian, and his articles were a recording of the "stories" of 100 venerable houses. Rather than bemoaning what was lost--or soon to be lost--Drury set out to gather information on what was still standing. He recognized that Chicago was a city "where real estate values are of primary importance and historic landmarks of little consequence," as many of the owners of the houses become wealthy through real-estate speculation. The houses themselves illustrate practically all styles of architecture found in the United States. In 100 small chapters, Drury's sets out the social history of the homes of old settlers, birthplaces, and onetime abodes of famous men and women, with the capsule biographies of the people connected to them being especially interesting for Chicagoans. Ninety-nine of the houses are from the nineteenth century, there not being any Chicago in the eighteenth; the exception is the twentieth century Robie house. Of these, John Sifton, in a publisher's note, lists the thirty-four houses extant in early 1975 and provides references to whether they appear in the National Register, in "Chicago's Famous Buildings," or in Ira J. Bach's "Chicago on Foot."

ISBN:

0226165558
9780226165554

Subject:

Historic buildings Illinois Chicago.
Dwellings Illinois Chicago.
Architecture, Domestic Illinois Chicago.
Monuments historiques Illinois Chicago.
Habitations Illinois Chicago.
Architecture, Domestic
Dwellings
Historic buildings
Chicago (Ill.) Biography.
Chicago (Ill.) History.
Chicago (Ill.) Constructions.
Chicago (Ill.) Histoire.
Illinois Chicago

Form/genre:

collective biographies.
History
Biographies

Holdings:

Location: Library main 136335
Call No.: 8974 A623 F548.7.D78; ID:86-B8849
Status: Available