Word: palmers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Potter Palmer died in his Lake Shore Drive home, leaving his wife...
...Potter Palmer's greatest contributions to U. S. social history were the silver dollar motif for barroom floors and his Chicago home at No. 1350 Lake Shore Drive.* Last week, after a lapse of three years, the great castellated pile that he plunked down on a sand dune in 1882 was repossessed by his family...
...Potter Palmer built his mansion for Mrs. Bertha Honore Palmer, a Kentucky belle, out of a fortune he had made in the dry-goods business and plowed back into a mile of State Street real estate. In its day it cost more than $1,000,000 and was generally considered a thing of rare architectural beauty (see cut). Inside it was a magnificent hodgepodge. The great central hall, three stories high, was largely Italian. There was a Louis XVI salon, an Indian room, a Moorish room where the rugs were impregnated with rare perfumes. The grand ballroom was plastered with...
...moment the house was finished it became the social capital of Chicago. About it and Bertha Honore Palmer, firmly enthroned in her own Italian hall, sprang up a vast folklore. One famed Chicago social organization once had the temerity to entertain simultaneously with Mrs. Palmer but only a society editor appeared. Bertha Palmer maintained winter palaces in London and Paris but they served chiefly as hunting preserves where she caught European royalty and nobility for her Chicago castle. Chicago was good to Mrs. Palmer. It was always properly dazzled by her social display. Her only serious setback occurred...
Only once did Mrs. Palmer let down the bars. Managing her Son Honore's campaign for a seat on the City Council, she shrewdly invited 500 members of the 21st Ward Marching Club to the Castle. More at home in West Side brothels and saloons, they arrived behind a brass band. As they filed in Mrs. Palmer, in elaborate evening clothes and a diamond necklace, personally thanked each & every one of them for their political efforts in her son's behalf. Honore Palmer was elected, served two terms...