Location: 1816 S. Prairie (Old 896)
Occupants: Charles M. Henderson
Life Span: 1873-~1926
Architect: TBD
Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, 1876
Henderson Charles M. (C. M. Henderson & Co.) Monroe se. cor. Franklin, house 896 Prairie av.
Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, 1880
Henderson Charles M. (C. M. Henderson & Co.) Monroe se. cor. Franklin, house 1816 Prairie av.
Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, 1884
Henderson Charles M. (C. M. Henderson & Co.) 220 Monroe, house 1816 Prairie av.
Chicago Evening Mail, April 25, 1873
C. M. Henderson’s house, in course of erection, No. 894 Prairie avenue, was burgled of a chest of carpenters’ tools worth $125, on Wednesday.
The Land Owner, May 1874
Chicago Tribune, December 31, 1881
C. M. Henderson & Co.,
for more than thirty years representatives, and for a long time past the leading representatives, of the wholesale boot and shoe trade of Chicago and the West, have done an exceptionally large business the past year. Their trade has increased to such an extent that they have been obliged to provide more room, and, in addition to their large warehouse and salesrooms on the corner of 31onroe and Franklin streets, on the 1st of January, 1882, they will occupy the two stores Nos. 257, 259, 261, 263 Franklin street, containing live floors SO feet by 140 feet, or nearly an acre and a third of additional floor-room.
The business of this house has been conducted with rare ability and sagacity. It has had no consuming ambition to do a larger business than its competitors, or to be known as specially conspicuous in its line. But its aim has has been to secure such a share of trade as would naturally and legitimately come to a house seeking faithfully and industriously to give its customers the best goods it could afford for the price asked. And it has been scrupulously careful that its goods should be just as represented. And it has been because its cultomers have always found that their goods could be relied on, and that their promise never outran their performance, that their business grew constantly larger and larger, and the circle of their patrons became wider and wider, till their trade extended in all directions to the limit of Chicago enterprise. And for the past two or three years its sales have exceeded by at least a half a million dollars that of any boot and shoe jobbing house in the United States.
This house has not shut itself up to know nothing and do nothing except in the line of its particular business, while neglecting no private or personal obligations. The senior member of the house has taken an active part in public and charitable enterprises and given his time and money liberally to promote the common good. In this respect he has had the cooperation of a goodly number of our best business-men, and it would be greatly to the credit and well-being of Chicago if many more followed their example.
Chicago Tribune, January 9, 1898
The widow of Charles Maher Henderson still occupies the family home at 1816 Prairie avenue. She was Miss Emily Hollingsworth, daughter of James Hollingsworth of Chicago. Mr. Henderson was one of the city’s business-men until his death a couple of years ago. He came to Chicago in 1853 and was married five years later. From the start his interests in this city were in the shoe and leather business. Mr. Henderson was, and Mrs. Henderson is still, a worker in the first Presbyterian Church.
- 1816 S. Prairie Ave.
- 1816 S. Prairie Ave.
Robinson Fire Insurance Map
1886
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