Chicago River quayside, with old Rush Street bridge
Chicago River (Ill.)
Rush Street Bridge (Chicago, Ill.)
Wagons
This is a study photo by planner Edward H. Bennett of the future location of Wacker Drive, Chicago, north of the Loop. It appears to be looking east toward the Rush Street Bridge. There are horse-drawn freight wagons in the view.
One of a series of such study photos, 1913-1915.
Bennett, Edward H. (Edward Herbert), 1874-1954
Marcia O. and Edward H. Bennett III Collection
1913-1915
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Freight cars in yard south of Grand Central Station, Chicago
Grand Central Station (Chicago, Ill.)
Freight cars--United States
Pictured are trains of freight cars on tracks in a below-grade freight yard south of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad's Grand Central Station, Harrison Street, Chicago. Visible is the Grand Central Station 242 ft., flat-topped tower standing center left in the photo. The designer was architect Solon Beman. See Frank A. Randall, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">History of Chicago Buildings</span> (University of Illinois Press, 1949), pp. 176-77. This image is one of a series of study photos taken prior to planning for Wacker Drive and for a new Union Station, planned by Peirce Anderson (Graham Anderson Probst & White) beginning in 1917.
Bennett, Edward H. (Edward Herbert), 1874-1954
Marcia O. and Edward H. Bennett III Collection
1913-1915
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Quayside covered loading dock, Chicago River near Rush Street Bridge
Rush Street Bridge (Chicago, Ill.)
Chicago River (Ill.)
Trucks--Illinois--Chicago--1900-1940
This photo shows the covered loading area facing the Chicago River quays, with the old Rush Street Bridge in the background. This is in the area of the Chicago River's banks north of the Loop area projected for redevelopment as Wacker Drive on the south side, and also double-tiered on the north side.
In the loading area are horse-drawn wagons and a truck. One wagon is labeled "Zipprich [Fr]aming Co."
One of a series of study images, 1913-15, when the photographer, planner Edward H. Bennett, was preparing for working on design of the river front.
Bennett, Edward H. (Edward Herbert), 1874-1954
Marcia O. and Edward H. Bennett III Collection
1913-1915
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1913 - 1915
Chicago River quayside with freight wagon traffic, a truss bridge, and an elevated train
Chicago River (Ill.)
Wagons
Railroads, elevated--Chicago
Truss bridges
Streets--Illinois--Chicago
This is one of the "before" or study photos taken by Edward H. Bennett in 1913-15 prior to planning Wacker Drive and the double-tiering of the Chicago River banks near the Loop or central business district.
Shown here are the road along the river bank, the horse-drawn freight wagons on it, the brick pavement, steel supports for an overpass or something, and a truss bridge for elevated tracks, seen here with a train car on the right.
The exact location is to be determined. The signage in this image which is shaken might be legible in the master scan of this negative of a snapshot by Bennett.
Bennett, Edward H. (Edward Herbert), 1874-1954
Marcia O. and Edward H. Bennett III Collection
1913-1915
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Chicago River and quay, south side looking west
Butler Brothers (Firm)
Rutland Transit Company
Chicago River (Ill.)
Wagons
Warehouses -- Illinois -- Chicago
One of Edward H. Bennett's study or "before" photos, apparently taken between 1913 and 1915, for developing the design of Wacker Drive in Chicago. The date of the Butler Brothers building and the latest date the boat could have been present establish the temporal parameters for this series of pre-redevelopment views by Bennett.
The roadway on the quay shows a horse-drawn freight wagon, between the covered loading areas and the river. In the distance, on the west side of the river, are the Butler Brothers Warehouses designed by D.H. Burnham & Company, the south building completed in 1913. The address was 111 North Canal Street. The Butler Brothers building also is shown in Paul Gilbert and Charles Lee Bryson, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Chicago and Its Makers</span> (1929) 598, referenced from Randall, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">History of Chicago Buildings</span>, 246. See also Sally A. Kitt Chappelle, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Architecture and Planning of Graham, Anderson, Probst and White, 1912-1936: Transforming Tradition</span> (U. of Chicago Press, 1992) 147-48. See also <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Encyclopedia of Chicago </span>http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/11090.html
The freighter ship in the river is labeled "Rutland Transit Co." The 1912 Panama Canal Act (P.L. 62-337), according to an undocumented <a href="http://forgottenchicago.com/forum/5/2548/rutland_transit_co__serving_chicago">online posting</a>, prohibited Rutland from operating on the Great Lakes after 1915. Thus, this photo can be dated provisionally between 1913 when the Butler Brothers building was completed and 1915 when the Rutland ship was no longer able to operate on the Great Lakes.
Bennett, Edward H. (Edward Herbert), 1874-1954
Marcia O. and Edward H. Bennett III Collection
1913-1915
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Chicago River, Butler Brothers warehouse, and C & NW freight car
Chicago and North Western Railway Company
Chicago River (Ill.)
Butler Brothers (Firm)
Freight cars
Warehouses -- Illinois -- Chicago
This is one of a series of study photographs taken by Edward H. Bennett in preparation for the design of Wacker Drive and redevelopment of the river fronts north and west of downtown Chicago.
The freight yard held one C & NW railway freight car, seen at the left.
Bennett, Edward H. (Edward Herbert), 1874-1954
Marcia O. and Edward H. Bennett III Collection
1913-1915
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Chicago River quay, perhaps north side looking east
Chicago River (Ill.)
Wagons
Swing bridges
One of a series of "before" or study photos by Edward H. Bennett preparatory to designing new double-tiered Chicago River quays, north of the central business district of Chicago, this probably dates from the the 1913-1915 period, as established in another image in the group. Possible locations can be examined more closely on p.213 of Frank A. Randall, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">History of Chicago Buildings</span>, an engraving view looking west from the mouth of the Chicago River (Rand McNally, 1893).
Bennett, Edward H. (Edward Herbert), 1874-1954
Marcia O. and Edward H. Bennett III Collection
1913-1915
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Street scene atop the Dearborn Street Bridge, looking north
Chicago River (Ill.)
Chicago Varnish Company Building
Cobb, Henry Ives, 1859-1931
Caravetta Building
Wagons
Street cleaners
Pictured here as one of Edward H. Bennett's study photos, 1913-1915, is the top of the Dearborn Street Bridge, looking north to the Caravetta or Chicago Varnish Co. Building, designed by Henry Ives Cobb, 1895 (AIC Burnham Library archives site).
The view is fascinating for its glimpse of street life in Chicago in ca. 1913-1915 when this sequence of photos apparently was taken, in preparation for design of Wacker Drive and the Chicago River bridges. There are single business-garbed men walking on both directions, wagons traveling in both directions on their own lanes, and a no-longer-young street sweeper at work with a push broom in the north-bound lane.
The bridge is of riveted metal, with no tall superstructure.
Bennett, Edward H. (Edward Herbert), 1874-1954
Marcia O. and Edward H. Bennett III Collection
1913-1915
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Dearborn Street Bridge, looking North
Hunter, Walton & Co.
Cobb, Henry Ives, 1859-1931
Chicago and North Western Railway Company
Street cleaners
This view taken by Edward H. Bennett as a study image for redevelopment of the the Chicago river front, 1913-15, shows the Dearborn Street bridge, looking north. A trolley track follows the road north, with a street cleaner at work.
Businesses immediately north of the river at Dearborn and identifiable include: Hunter, Walton & Co., a dairy company housed in architect Henry Ives Cobb's distinctive 1895 Caravetta building (in 2010 Harry Caray's Restaurant) at 33 West Kinzie, a building relating to the former Chicago and Northwestern Railway station, and a sign on a warehouse for Italian-Swiss Colony "fine wines...."
A man is sweeping the bridge surface with a push broom, upper left.
Bennett, Edward H. (Edward Herbert), 1874-1954
Marcia O. and Edward H. Bennett III Collection
1913-1915
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West bank of Chicago River north of Madison Street
Hurley Electric Laundry Equipment Company
Chicago River (Ill.)
Wagons
Hurley Machine Company
This is a view of a quayside roadway above the Chicago riverbank, with a house, wagon and driver. The vantage point seems to be from the northeast. Behind and above in the view are signs for the Hurley Electric Laundry Equipment Company, an electric sign above a structure, and for the Hurley Machine [Company] painted on the side of a masonry building. The main address for this Hurley Machine Company in the 1914 telephone book is 20 South Clinton, which is near the intersection with Madison, two blocks west of the Chicago River.
The bridge seen partially appears to be for Madison Street, and this river bank would be on the west side north of Madison.
Hurley was a pioneer in a field, electric washing machines, that would dominate mid 20th century transformation of household drudgery and contribute to the liberation women from a weekly pattern of toil.
This is one of series of study views by Edward Bennett along the Chicago River north and west of the central business district, 1913-1915. These views were in preparation for design of the redevelopment of these river banks into a more orderly pattern and even occasional park-like promenades, as had emerged in Paris in the late 19th century. These snapshots recall images of early 19th century and earlier views of the banks of the Seine River in Paris, from standard historical engravings (such as "Tableau de Paris...," 1822-27) very likely available to Bennett when he studied there and perhaps later as well.
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Bennett, Edward H. (Edward Herbert), 1874-1954
Marcia O. and Edward H. Bennett III Collection
1913-1915
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