Typical room charges ranged from $3.50 to $7 per day and included three to four meals. All professed to be fireproof above all, but boasted grand lobbies, monumental staircases, elegant parlors, cafes, barber shops, bridal suites, dining rooms, ballrooms, promenades, hundreds of private bedrooms and baths, and the latest luxuries. These buildings adopted the commercial palazzo style of architecture common to the grand hotel palaces of the East. The “Big Four” of the post-fire hotels included the Palmer House, the Grand Pacific, the Tremont, and the Sherman House. Another hotel, the Grand Pacific, had been open only a few days. The Palmer House had been open only for a few months. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln spoke from its balcony to crowd-filled streets below, and, in 1860, the hotel served as the headquarters for the IllinoisĪs it campaigned for Lincoln's presidential nomination. The Tremont House in particular, rebuilt for the third time in 1850, retained its position for many years as the city's leading hotel. Lighting, elevators, French chefs, and elegant surroundings.
These five-, six-, and seven-story block masonry buildings offered amenities such as steam heat, The Tremont House, Briggs House, Palmer House, Sherman House, Adams House, Matteson House, Massasoit House, and Metropolitan House were among the pre-1871 hotels that served the city in luxurious style. It was an elegant three-story brick building costing $90,000, and it served as a center for social and political activity.ĭuring the mid-nineteenth century, the building, destruction, and rebuilding of hotels continued, fueled by fire and burgeoning development. Near where the Wrigley Building stands today. Chicago's first Tremont House followed in 1833, and, though modest, it was no doubt named for Boston's remarkable Tremont House (1829). In 1831 Beaubien added a frame addition to his log building, establishing Chicago's first hotel. The first three taverns, Caldwell's Tavern (built by James Kinzie), the Miller House, and Mark Beaubien's tavern, soon known as the Sauganash Hotel, arose at Wolf's Point at the fork of the Chicago River during 18. Therefore, the typical developmental pattern of traveler accommodations that proceeded elsewhere from tavern to city inn and then, beginning in the 1820s, to luxury hotel took place in Chicago rapidly and on a large scale. When Chicago was a small village in 1830, the American palace hotel ideal was literally being cast in stone on the eastern seaboard.
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