Apr 11, 2023
Charles B. Farwell House
Built in 1882, for Senator Charles B. Farwell (1823-1903) and his wife Mary Eveline Smith (1825-1905). It was one of a pair of houses built at the same time by the same architects (Treat & Foltz) for the brothers Charles and John V. Farwell (1825-1908), owners of one of the larges dry goods wholesalers in the United States.... The interior of the red-brick Queen Anne-style manison was described by John Drury in his book, Old Chicago Houses: “The great entrance hall aspired to the ideal of a baronial manor house with paneled wainscot (of golden oak), an enormous fireplace niche (with a microscopic grate opening), a beamed ceiling, walls and ceilings covered with stencilled canvas, and here and there crossed scimitars, bronze statues, brass plaques, antlers, inlaid tables, Jacobean furniture and two early American Windsor chairs looking very self-conscious and out of place.” It was demolished in 1946, replaced by a Bonwit Teller store.
Charles B. Farwell House
Built in 1882, for Senator Charles B. Farwell (1823-1903) and his wife Mary Eveline Smith (1825-1905). It was one of a pair of houses built at the same time by the same architects (Treat & Foltz) for the brothers Charles and John V. Farwell (1825-1908), owners of one of the larges dry goods wholesalers in the United States.... The interior of the red-brick Queen Anne-style manison was described by John Drury in his book, Old Chicago Houses: “The great entrance hall aspired to the ideal of a baronial manor house with paneled wainscot (of golden oak), an enormous fireplace niche (with a microscopic grate opening), a beamed ceiling, walls and ceilings covered with stencilled canvas, and here and there crossed scimitars, bronze statues, brass plaques, antlers, inlaid tables, Jacobean furniture and two early American Windsor chairs looking very self-conscious and out of place.” It was demolished in 1946, replaced by a Bonwit Teller store.
Apr 11, 2023
Posted Date
Apr 10, 2023
Historical Record Date
Apr 11, 2023
Source Name
House Histree
