The Story of a House

In last week’s article, we looked at the first houses constructed on Prairie Avenue in the blocks immediately south of 16 th Street. This...

In last week’s article, we looked at events during the first half of the 19 th century that laid the groundwork for the six blocks of Pra...

The heyday of Prairie Avenue as Chicago’s most exclusive residential street is generally framed by the dates of the Great Chicago Fire in ...

In the Chicago periodical, The Economist , of February 15, 1919, there was an article on Louis H. Sullivan. Artist Frank G. Logan had just...

1700 block of South Michigan Avenue; two Sullivan designed houses at center During the month of June, we will explore some of the les...

Parlor, 2012 (photo by James Caulfield) During Preservation Month 2020, we have explored each of the first-floor public rooms, looki...