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The hotel was named for Orsemus Morrison, the first coroner in Chicago, who bought the site in 1838 and in 1860 built a three-story hotel with 21 rooms. Destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, this was replaced by an eight-story building. In 1915 Harry C. Moir, who had bought the property from Morrison's nephew, built a 21-floor, 500-room ...
The Harrison and Fifteenth Streets Historic District covers: 1401–1501 Harrison Street, 300–312 14th Street, and 300–349 15th Street. The Harrison and Fifteenth Streets Historic District includes the Mrs. A.E. White Building at 327-349 15th Street, that was also designated an Oakland Landmark (LM-85-319) in 1985.
The interior of Grand Central Station was decorated as extravagantly as the exterior. The waiting room, for example, had marble floors, Corinthian-style columns, stained-glass windows and a marble fireplace, and a restaurant. The station also had a 100-room hotel, but accommodations ended late in 1901. [4] [5] The train shed of Grand Central ...
The Inn of Chicago, originally known as the Hotel St. Clair, was built in 1927 by Oman & Lihienthal, and is located at 162 East Ohio Street in the Streeterville neighborhood of Chicago. The hotel is currently [ as of? ] part of the Choice Hotels International hotel chain , after a history involving many exchanges between management companies.
The Fort Dearborn Hotel is a skyscraper and former hotel located at 401 S. Lasalle St. in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. The 17-story hotel was designed by Holabird & Roche and finished in 1914. Designed in the Venetian Renaissance style, the hotel was built with gray and reddish brown brick and featured terra cotta ornamentation.
Overlooking Lake Michigan, it was founded in 1920, and soon became one of Chicago's landmark hotels and a longtime rival of the Palmer House. It has 535 bedrooms (including 74 suites), a six-room Presidential Suite, several restaurants, two large ballrooms , the "Palm Court" (a club-like, secluded lobby, where afternoon tea is served), and Club ...
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The Mark Twain Hotel is a historic residential hotel located at 111 W. Division Street in the Near North Side community area of Chicago, Illinois.Built in 1930 by developer Fred Becklenberg, the hotel was one of several residential hotels built to house the influx of labor to Chicago in the late 1920s.