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Pullman Industrial Complex, 111th Street & Cottage Grove Avenue vicinity, Chicago, Cook County, IL

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Pullman Industrial Complex, 111th Street & Cottage Grove Avenue vicinity, Chicago, Cook County, IL

description

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

date_range

Date

1969 - 1980

person

Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator

Beman, S S

Barrett, Nathan F

Pullman Palace Car Company

place

Location

chicago, 41.87811, -87.62980

Google Map of 41.8781136, -87.6297982

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Source

Library of Congress

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Link

http://www.loc.gov/

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