Henry Ives Cobb
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Henry Ives Cobb was an architect from the United States. Based in Chicago in the last decades of the 19th century, he was known for his designs in the Richardsonian Romanesque and Victorian Gothic sty
The Newberry Library, Washington Square Park, Chicago
Harriet F Rees House Chicago IL
Chicago Athletic Association Building
Garfield CLE
Palmer Mansion
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The Palmer Mansion was a large private home constructed 1882–1885 at 1350 N. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois. Once the largest private residence in the city, it was located in the Near North Side
Henry Ives Cobb
…Peabody & Stearns before moving to Chicago in 1882. In Chicago, Cobb partnered with Charles Sumner Frost and formed Cobb and Frost. They designed the Palmer Mansion (demolished) on Lake Shore Drive; the Chicago Varnish Company Building—listed on the National Register of Historic Places and as a Chicago Landmark…
The front façade, c. 1910
Arthur Meeker, Jr. called the mansion a "liver-colored goldfish castle". Photochrom print, 1900.
Bertha Palmer's large collection of paintings included works by Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Pablo Picasso.
The Palmer Mansion's first floor plan.