Chicago, ILLINOIS - Hotel Sherman - ADVERTISING

Description: Chicago, ILLINOIS - Hotel Sherman - ADVERTISING - 1938: The Sherman House was a hotel in Chicago, Illinois that existed from 1837 until 1973, with various iterations standing at the same site at the northwest corner of Randolph Street and Clark Street. Long one of the city's major hotels, the hotel declined in the 1950s, closed in 1973, and its building was demolished in 1980 to make room for the James R. Thompson Center. Constructed from 1910 to 1911, this fourth version of the hotel was designed by Holabird and Roche. The new 757-room Sherman House Hotel retained the establishment's status of being one the nicest hotels in the city from the time it opened, until the 1950s. It was a modern hotel housed in a twelve-story skyscraper of steel and masonry construction. It was constructed in the Second Empire style. In the 1950s, its reputation began to decline. The hotel contained a new College Inn. This would be a very popular site for big band music performances. As with the previous hotel, the new hotel was the Chicago headquarters of the Democratic Party, housing the formal headquarters of the Cook County Democratic Party. However, in 1932, the Cook County Democratic Party moved its headquarters to the third floor of the Morrison Hotel. In 1920, the building's decorative mansard roof was demolished and an additional six floors were added to the building, bringing it to seventeen stories. On April 12, 1924, the AM radio station WLS began broadcasting from a studio in the hotel. A 23-floor annex was constructed in 1925. The hotel's venues, such as the College Inn, Panther Room, Well of the Sea, and Scuttlebutt Lounge, for years, were famed institutions. The hotel, for years, anchored a vibrant district of the city full of popular theaters, restaurants, and hotels. It attracted many celebrities. It was also a popular gathering place for politicians who worked at nearby Chicago City Hall. It hosted events, such as the 1938 NFL Draft. In the 1950s and 1960s, however, the demolition of the adjacent Ashland Block skyscraper (and its replacement with a Greyhound Lines bus terminal), the demolition of the Garrick Theatre/Schiller Building, and the land clearance taking place to make way for the Chicago Civic Center (now named the Richard J. Daley Center) greatly diminished the liveliness of this district. This Photochromatic postcard, mailed in 1938, is in good condition.

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Location: Brooklyn, New York

End Time: 2024-12-07T03:04:44.000Z

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