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
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.
Bertha Palmer
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Bertha Matilde Palmer was an American businesswoman, socialite, and philanthropist. She was the wife of millionaire Potter Palmer and early member of the Chicago Woman's Club, as well as president of
Palmer Mansion
…neighborhood, facing Lake Michigan. It was designed by architects Henry Ives Cobb and Charles Sumner Frost of the firm Cobb and Frost and built for Bertha and Potter Palmer, a local businessman responsible for much of the development of State Street. The construction of the mansion established the "Gold…
Bertha Palmer at age thirteen
Portrait titled Mrs. Potter Palmer by Anders Zorn, 1893
Bertha and Potter Palmer's burial site located in Graceland Cemetery.