Pullman Industrial Complex, 111th Street & Cottage Grove Avenue vicinity, Chicago, Cook County, IL
Summary
Significance: Between 1880 and 1883 the Pullman Palace Car Company built a complete factory and town on the shore of Lake Calumet for the purpose of building railroad rolling stock. It was among America's first planned industrial communities.
Survey number: HAER IL-5
Building/structure dates: 1883 Initial Construction
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 69000054
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Beman, S S
Barrett, Nathan F
Pullman Palace Car Company
Location
chicago, 41.87811, -87.62980
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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