Lost Houses of Prairie Avenue: 1800-1900 Blocks (West Side)

Lost Houses of Prairie Avenue: 1800-1900 Blocks (West Side). . "The aristocratic quarter of Prairie Avenue (is home to) merchants whose business affects every mart on earth (and who possess) wealth that at last aroused the jealousy of New York." , Rand McNally and Company, 1893 , , 1808 S. Prairie Avenue , Osborn R. Keith Residence. Built 1886; Cobb and Frost, architects The second of Keith's houses on the street, it was later owned by Stanley Field, long-time President of the Field Museum. The north wall was retained during demolition in 1968 to preserve the private courtyard of the adjacent Glessner house. , , 1812 S. Prairie Avenue , George H. Wheeler Residence. Built 1884; Burnham and Root, architects , A picturesque brick row house in the Dutch vernacular style built for George Wheeler, a grain elevator owner and later president of the Chicago City Railway Company. Razed 1968. , , 1824 S. Prairie Avenue , Samuel B. Pomeroy Residence. Built 1857; architect unknown , One of the earliest houses on the street, it received a fashionable new stone façade in the early 1880s, during the ownership of George B. Marsh. Razed in the 1940s. , , 1834 S. Prairie Avenue , Fernando Jones Residence. Built 1866; John M. Van Osdel, architect , Built for one of Chicago's pioneers, whose residency extended back to the days of the Potowatomi Indians. In 1886, the Italianate residence received a mansard addition to bring it into fashion with many of its neighbors. Razed 1942. , , 1912 S. Prairie Avenue , Byran P. Moulton Residence. Built 1882; architect unknown , This expansive Chateauesque style home became the residence of future Illinois governor Frank O. Lowden in 1898, and was later home to the widow of railroad magnate T. B. Blackstone. Razed 1939. , , 1936 S. Prairie Avenue , Daniel M. Thompson-Samuel W. Allerton Residence. Built 1870; Lavall B. Dixon, architect , The first $100,000 house on the South Side helped to establish the prominence of Prairie Avenue. Meatpacker Samuel Allerton married Thompson's daughter and took over ownership of the house in 1879. In 1915, it was razed and replaced by the Hump Hairpin Mfg. Co. factory.