Just a year later, as the Palmer House Hotel neared completion ... Potter Palmer had single handedly reoriented Chicago's downtown from Lake Street — an east-west road along the stinking ...

Situated in the heart of Chicago's Loop, the hotel was opened on 26 September 1871 by businessman Potter Palmer as a wedding gift to his wife, Bertha, but it burned down 13 days later in the Great ...

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A 19th-century mansion on Cedar Street, built by the onetime “Queen of Chicago ... Palmer exerted significant influence in the now-cherished interior design of the Palmer House Hotel, the ...