Tiffany Lamp, Samuel M. Nickerson Mansion, Driehaus Museum, Erie Street and Wabash Avenue, River North, Chicago, IL : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Tiffany Lamp, Samuel M. Nickerson Mansion, Driehaus Museum, Erie Street and Wabash Avenue, River North, Chicago, IL / w_lemay
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| 説明 | Built in 1883, this Italianate-style house was designed by Edward J. Burling and Francis Meredyth Whitestone for Samuel M. Nickerson, a banker whom founded the First National Bank of Chicago and Union Stockyards National Bank, and his wife, Mathilda Pinkham Crosby Nickerson, to serve as their residence. The house’s interior was decorated by William August Fiedler, R. W. Bates and Company, and George A. Schastey and Company, with opulent aesthetic movement decor that was typical of mansions during the time period. The house was the home of the Nickerson family until 1900, when Samuel M. Nickerson retired, donated much of the family’s art collection to the Art Institute of Chicago, and sold the house to Lucius George Fisher, president of Union Bag and Paper Company, whom renovated the house’s art gallery, transforming it into a trophy room and library, with the renovations being designed by George W. Maher. Upon the death of Fisher in 1916, the house was put up for sale, and was in danger of demolition before being purchased by a group of wealthy and prominent Chicago residents, and was deeded to the American College of Surgeons to serve as their headquarters. The house was utilized as the college’s administrative offices and meeting space until 1965.The house is clad in limestone and sandstone, with one-over-one double-hung windows, a cornice with modillions, a three-story bay window at the west end of the south facade, a front porch with corinthian columns and stone railings, a stone fence around the perimeter of the property, decorative stone trim at the windows, and a rusticated stone base. Inside, the house is lavishly decorated with woodwork, marble, lincrusta, tile, ornate fireplace surrounds, coffered ceilings, ornate light fixtures, a stained glass dome in the trophy room and library, wooden and tile floors, and fabric wallpaper. The building was expanded in 1923-1926 with the addition of the Classical Revival-style John B. Murphy Memorial Building, which was designed by Benjamin H. Marshall and Charles E. Fox to house an auditorium for the American College of Surgeons. The Murphy Memorial is clad in limestone like the mansion, but features a distinctly different exteiror, with casement windows, a cornice with modillions below the parapet, a front portico with ionic columns and a decorated front pediment featuring sculptural reliefs and a cartouche, and a large brass entrance door below a fanlight transom.The Nickerson Mansion was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, and was designated a Chicago Landmark in 1977. In 2003, the mansion was purchased by Richard Driehaus, and subsequently restored and opened to the public as a house museum, which features special rotating exhibits, as well as a well-preserved opulent victorian interior. The mansion and the adjacent John B. Murphy Memorial Building also host special events, including weddings. Today, the house is a museum, which displays artifacts from the Nickersons, as well as part of the private collection of Tiffany glass owned by Richard Driehaus. |
| 撮影日 | 2024-11-21 13:07:13 |
| 撮影者 | w_lemay , Chicago, IL, United States |
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| 撮影地 | Chicago, Illinois, United States 地図 |