The Story of a House

In October 1875, John and Frances Glessner attended the Interstate Industrial Exposition, located in a cavernous W. W. Boyington design...

Glessner House Museum is one of two buildings in Chicago that carry the Glessner name.  The other is a lesser known, five-story brick l...

During the last twenty years, as the Prairie Avenue District has been reborn as a desirable residential neighborhood, bits and pieces o...

The Fourth of July was celebrated in grand style at the Glessners’ summer estate, The Rocks, in 1911.  The event included a parade in w...

Among the many engravings on display in the museum is one entitled “Gesu Bambino,” the Italian name for the baby Jesus.  As we prepare to...

One of a small number of objects on permanent display in the museum depicting scenes from the Christmas story is a plaster cast plaque sh...

In September 1895 Frances Glessner began collecting quotations in a book she labeled simply “Volume No. 1 Quotations.”   Over the next 34...