Solon Spencer Beman
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Solon Spencer Beman was an American architect based in Chicago, Illinois and best known as the architect of the planned Pullman community and adjacent Pullman Company factory complex, as well as Chica
Arcade Park in Pullman surrounded by picturesque buildings in historical styles, including the Gothic Revival Greenstone Church.
The Michigan Trust Company Building in Grand Rapids, Michigan, designed by Beman in the Romanesque Revival style. When completed in 1891, it was the tallest office building in Grand Rapids and the second-tallest in Michigan.
The home of Chicago contractor John W. Griffiths as it appeared in The Inland Architect and News Record in February 1893. The house was purchased in 1959 by Margaret Taylor-Burroughs and became the first home of what is now the DuSable Museum of African American History in 1961. The house is a designated Chicago landmark and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
The Historic Michigan Boulevard District is a historic district in the Loop community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States encompassing Michigan Avenue between 11th or Roosevelt Roa
Aerial view of Michigan Avenue in 1911.
Armistice Day parade 1918
Historic Michigan Avenue from Millennium Park