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Palmer House IV
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Palmer House IV
Life Span: Present
Location: State and Monroe
Architect: N/A
Chicago Tribune April 4,
BY AL CHASE
Work starts Monday on the $20,,, twenty-three story Palmner house, to be the world&#;s largest hotel—with 2, rooms and 2, baths.
This is sixty-eight rooms more than the Pennsylvania, in New York, at present the largest hostelry. There are several others much contemplated but work hasn&#;t started yet on any or them.
The new Palmer house also will be the third largest in the world, according to the Palmer estate. The Marshall Field store comes flrst with 2S,, cubic feet: the Equitable in Gotham, next with 24,, and the Palmer will have 21,,
Investment Is $40,,
A total investment of $10,, will be involved Palmer house project.
The building, designed by Holabird &#; Roche, will cost $17,, Furnishings will total about $3,, and the site is valued at $20,, The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance of Milwaukee, represented by William Scott Bond.
has made one of the largest loans ever made in this $17,,, twenty years, at 5½ per cent.
Wreckers will begin on the Wabash avenue section of the old hostelry and a complete twenty-three story hotel will be erected without interfering In any way with the western section of the present buIlding. As soon as the first unit is completed the State section will be torn down.
It is to have the entire building in by Aug. 1, The Thompson-Statrrett company, which has the general contract, states that the new Palmer will be erected the Landia award ruling.
Floor for Women.
A feature new to Chicago will be the provision made for women travelers. The fifteenth floor will be devoted exclusively to feminine guests and in addition to sleeping rooms will have a beauty parlor, reception room; library, and writing room, etc.
Another unique feature, it is claimed, is the plan to have stores on the first five floors of the entire State street frontage.
A block long flrst arcade will run from State to Wabash. Connecting with it at right angles wlll be a half block long wider arcade extending from the hotel&#;s principal entrance on Monroe.
The main lobby, offices, and the principal dining room will be on the second floor. The fourth floor will be devoted to two great banquet rooms, with kitchen between.
All of the main kitchens will be on the Wabash avenue side. A large lunch counter and grill will be in the basement.
Long a Landmark.
The first Palmer, built by Potter Palmer, was at the northwest corner of State and Quincy and con.
rooms. It was wiped out by the great tire. The present hotel was opened in , and with its rooms and imposing architecture was considered one of the country&#;s greatest structures. Its fame as a hotel gradually spread all over the world.
Potter palmer v Believing that he possessed a talent to manage a larger business than it was possible to do here, he removed to Chicago, and opened a dry goods store. Click or scan to see this page online. He removed to Lockport, a much larger place, but continued there only one year. The name of her estate lives on today and is today the name of the bayfront subdivision in Sarasota for the rich and famous.The new hotel will be owned and operated by Honore and Potter Palmer, trustees of the Palmer estate.
The Palmer house statistician has made some flippant but interesting observations IllustraUng the huge size of the new hotel. For instance, a restless guest who insisted on changing his room every morning would be more than six years older when he left than the day he registered.
if he tried every room.
If a 21 year old guest who Is a firm believer in the Saturday night rite bathed each week in one of the 2, tubs, he&#;d be 64 years old when he checked out.
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Chicago Tribune June 4,
With Potter Palmer Jr.
officiating, the cornerstone for the new Palmer House, State and Monroe streets, was laid yesterday morning. Mr. Palmer, son iof the original owner of the old Palmer house, Chicago&#;s most famous hotel, put into the hollow of the stone one of the silver dollars that studded the barber shop floor in the old days of the hotel. The original Palmer house was destroyed by the Chicago fire.
Another was built in which contained rooms. The new building will have 2, rooms.
Its main lobby will be the largest in the country, by 85 feet.
Chicago Tribune
December 20,
PALMER HOUSE PARKING GARAGE.
Chicago Tribune, February 23,
One of the largest leases negotiated during the last decade was signed yesterday when the Palmer House company rented for a term of years the entire story garage property at Quincy street.
The lessor is the Quincy Parking Garage, Inc., controlled by the Reconstruction Finance corporation. The length of time and terms of the lease were not disclosed but it is on a minimum guarantee basis, plus a percentage of gross profits, including sale of storage space, gasoline, oil, repairs and accessories.
The Palmer House company took possession of the property, which comprises Chicago&#;s largest garage.
The hotel will operate it as a public garage, with direct and in direct and improved facilities for parking service to guests and patrons of the Palmer House, its shops, and restaurants.
According to Robert B. Witwer, real estate agent of the Palmer house, who negotiated the lease, a considerable expenditure will be made immediately to rehabilitate the premises and improve the mechanical equipment.
The building, which has a frontage of feet on Quincy street, with a depth of 75 feet, was designed by Walter W.
Ahlschlager and erected in , at a reported cost of $2,,, by the National Parking Garages, Inc., composed of a syndicate of New Yorkers. It was to be one of a nation-wide chain of similar skyscraping garages, all to be operated by mechanical devices and without ramps.1
NOTES:
- 1Postmaster Arthur Lueder is to officiate at the opening on Monday of the twenty-five story electrically operated garage oat 30 Quincy street.
This unit, known as the Quincy Parking Unit of the National Parking Garages, Inc., is said to be the largest of its type in the world.
When a car enters the garage for storage it is stopped in front of one of of a series of tracks that head into three huge elevators. Over each of the three elevators is a panel with illuminated buttons indicating the position of parking spaces on each of the twenty-five floors.
The elevator man presses a lever and an automatic &#;dolly,&#; similar to the device used to move pianos, runs out on the track under the automobile.
Potter palmer iv biography sample form Sign Me Up Dismiss. Although a frequent and spectacular hostess, Bertha also treasured her privacy. The Palmer House was, at eight stories, the tallest building in the city. Chicago: City of the Century Article Eight Anarchists Despite their different beliefs, the trial, convictions and sentencing that followed would unite these "Haymarket Eight" in history.An arm on the dolly takes a firm hold on the car and it is lifted up on the elevator to the floor designated. The dolly then takes the car onto the parking floor. The garage has storage space for 1, cars.—Chicago Tribune, May 18,