Location: 1912 S. Prairie, Telephone:
Occupants: Byron P. Moulton, Mosier T. Greene, Blackstone
Life Span: 1882-1939
Architect: Treat & Folts
Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, 1884
Moulton Byron P. (Reyburn, Hunter & Co.) 81 Jackson, house 1912 Prairie
Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, 1885
Moulton Byron P. (Reyburn, Hunter & Co.) 81 Jackson, house 1912 Prairie
Chicago Telephone Directory, 1892
Green M. T.… Residence… 1912 Prairie… South-482
Chicago Tribune, June 18, 1882
Building has not yet felt the impulse of the new brick. though several important schemes are almost ready to be undertaken. In the more important permits of the week were those to B. P. Moulton for a two-story dwelling, 45×80 feet, at No. 1912 Prairie avenue, to cost $75,000.
Chicago Tribune, June 8, 1887
Sale of B. P. Moulton’s House to M. T. Greene.
There was put on record yesterday the deed by which B. P. Moulton conveys to Mosier T. Greene, the President of the great Chicago Lumber Company, his home, No. 1912 Prairie avenue. The consideration in the deed is $200,000, but the price paid is $215,000, as Mr. Moulton sells the house furnished, and the new owner moves in today. It is the intention of the former to return to Philadelphia, whence he came city eighteen years ago to look after the Western interests of the Philadelphia firm of Reyburn, Hunter & Co., of which he is a member. This removal to his old home is purely due to family reasons. While spending a month or so of each year here, his permanent residence will probably be at Rosemont, ten miles this side of Philadelphia.
The house which Mr. Moulton has sold is one of the notable ones on the South Side. It is built of Connecticut brownstone, and stands on a lot 55 by 176, just between the homes of Samuel Allerton and Edson Keith, and overlooking the open grounds of Mr. Field. The price obtained is the highest ever paid for a private residence in this city, and indicates that in Chicago a man can build a costly house and then sell it for fully what it cost him. The lot was bought in 1881 for $40,000, or $722 a front foot, the highest price paid up that time for a lot intended for residence purposes. The house Mr. Greene has been occupying at No. 2123 Prairie avenue was bought last week, by Mr. Allerton and given to his daughter, Mrs. Papin, who will now take possession of it.
Chicago Tribune, January 9, 1898
Mrs. Mosher T. Green was until recently a member of the colony of widows who live at 1912 Prairie avenue. She is the widow of the well-known lumberman, The tragic death of her husband not long since will be recalled by nearly every Chicagoan. Mr. Green was drowned from a pleasure boat off Highland Park while attempting to rescue a Newfoundland dog that had become exhausted while swimming in the lake. The accident added one to the list of tragedies, the shadows of which hover about the avenue. Mr. Green was one of the pioneers in Chicago’s lumber trade, a pillar in Bishop Cheney’s church, and a companionable citizen. One of the last incidents in the life of the Greens on Prairie avenue was an elaborate reception prepared with great pains and given for their friends from all parts of the city. That reception was a matter of much interest and is recalled as a part of the unwritten history of the thoroughfare. Mrs. Green moved away soon after her husband’s death. This stately chateauesque style home was owned by Byron P. Moulton. It was designed by Treat and Foltz in 1882. Seven years later future Illinois governor Frank O. Lowden bought the house.
Inter Ocean, July 24, 1908
LOWDEN RESIDENCE IS SOLD FOR $69,000
House at 1912 Prairie Avenue Purchased by Mrs. Isabella Blackstone, Whose Michigan Avenue Home Is to Be Site of a Hotel.
Frank O. Lowden has sold to Mrs. Isabella F. Blackstone his handsome residence at 1912 Prairie avenue. The site of the old Blackstone home on Michigan avenue is soon to be occupied by the Blackstone hotel, which will be built by the Drake Hotel company, and Mrs. Blackstone buys the Lowden house for her future residence. The building is a three story brown stone structure, occupying a lot 56×176 feet on the west side of the avenue, 190 feet north of Twentieth street. The consideration was given at $69,187.60.
The widow of Timothy Blackstone, president of the Chicago and Alton Railroad, acquired it in 1908 and remained in the home till her death in 1928.
The house was razed in 1939.
1912 S. Prairie
- 1912 S. Prairie Ave.
Robinson Fire Insurance Map
1886
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