{"id":3802,"date":"2018-12-11T20:34:43","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T02:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/?page_id=3802"},"modified":"2018-12-18T09:10:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T15:10:34","slug":"the-palmer-house-hotel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/places\/the-palmer-house-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Palmer House Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Palmer House Lobby in 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Three Palmer House hotels have been located at the corner of\u00a0State<\/a>\u00a0and Monroe streets in Chicago.<\/em><\/p>\n

First Palmer House<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n
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The first (known as “The Palmer”) was built as a wedding present from\u00a0Potter Palmer<\/a>\u00a0to his bride\u00a0Bertha Honor\u00e9<\/a>. It opened on September 26, 1871, but burned down just 13 days later on October 9, 1871 in the\u00a0Great Chicago Fire<\/a>. Palmer immediately set to work rebuilding, and with a $1.7 million\u00a0signature loan<\/a>\u00a0(believed to be the largest individual loan ever secured at that time), constructed one of the fanciest hotels worldwide in postfire Chicago.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Second Palmer House<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n
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Designed by architect\u00a0John M. Van Osdel<\/a>, the second\u00a0Palmer House Hotel<\/b>\u00a0was seven stories. Its amenities included oversized rooms, luxurious decor, and sumptuous meals served in grand style. The floor of its barber shop was tiled and silver dollars were embedded in a diamond pattern. Constructed mainly of iron and brick, the hotel was widely advertised as, “The World’s Only Fire Proof Hotel.”[2]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Famous visitors included presidential hopefuls\u00a0James Garfield<\/a>,\u00a0Grover Cleveland<\/a>,\u00a0Ulysses S. Grant<\/a>,\u00a0William Jennings Bryan<\/a>, and\u00a0William McKinley<\/a>; writers\u00a0Mark Twain<\/a>,\u00a0L. Frank Baum<\/a>, and\u00a0Oscar Wilde<\/a>; and actresses\u00a0Sarah Bernhardt<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Eleonora Duse<\/a>.[citation needed<\/span><\/a>]<\/sup>\u00a0It was completed in 1875. An 1895 meeting at the hotel of faculty representatives from various Midwestern universities resulted in the founding of the\u00a0Big Ten Conference<\/a>.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Third Palmer House<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n
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By the 1920s, the business in downtown Chicago could support a much larger facility, and the Palmer Estate decided to erect a new 25-story hotel. They hired\u00a0Holabird & Roche<\/a>\u00a0to design the building. Between 1923 and 1925, the hotel was rebuilt on the same site.[3]<\/a><\/sup><\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Excerpted from Wikipedia: Three Palmer House hotels have been located at the corner of\u00a0State\u00a0and Monroe streets in Chicago. First Palmer House The first (known as “The Palmer”) was built as a wedding present from\u00a0Potter Palmer\u00a0to his bride\u00a0Bertha Honor\u00e9. It opened on September 26, 1871, but burned down just 13 days later on October 9, 1871 … Continue reading The Palmer House Hotel<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":52,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3802","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3802"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3836,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3802\/revisions\/3836"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}