- Chicago, the Metropolis of the North West
Louis Kurz, 1864
View from Hiram Wheeler’s Grain Elevator, Franklin and North River street, which shows the 4th Clark Street Bridge. Other structures displayed along the edges clockwise from top left are Trinity Church, St. Patrick’s Church, Illinois Central Depot, Wabash Avenue Methodist Church, Church of the Holy Family, North Presbyterian Church, St. Paul’s Church, Custom House, Court House, Board of Trade, 2d Presbyterian Church, 1st Presbyterian Church.
Chicago Times, December 16, 1862
Hiram Wheeler’s Elevater.
We understand that this elevator, which has been undergoing extensive repairs during the past two or three months, will again commence receiving grain on and after to-morrow, the 16th inst. This house has now been put in excellent repair throughout. An entire new foundation bas been laid, and such alterations have been made in its interior arrangements as must insure for it superior advantages for keeping and storing grain. All the old stock was entirely removed so that not a bushel of old grain remains in the house, leaving the bine empty for fresh receipts. Mr. Wheeler is determined that his house shall rank henceforth first in the list, and we venture to assert that receipts hereafter at Hiram Wheeler’s will command prices fully as high as at any other house in the city. The coat of repairing the building was upwards of $15,000.
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