Regan Printing House
Life Span: 1888-1914, merged with Peterson Linotyping Company
Location: Plymouth court, near Harrison street
Architect: TBD
- Lakeside Business Directory of the City of Chicago, 1899
Regan Printing House J L Regan pres; F O Bartlett sec and treas. 87 to 91 Plymouth ct tel Harrison-85
Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, 1904
Regan Printing House J L Regan pres; J G Budde sec 87 to 91 Plymouth ct tel Harrison-85
Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, 1904
Regan Printing House J L Regan pres; J G Budde sec 525 to 529 Plymouth ct tel Harrison-6281
Chicago Tribune, May 27, 1888
NIGHT AND DAY PRESS WORK.
The Original Regan Printing House in New Quarters Pushing Things as of Old.
The irrepressible pressman, James L. Regan, is now fully established in the new building, Nos. 87 to 91 Third avenue (Plymouth Court), in the new centre of the printing business, with new presses and new appliances of every kind, and all of the latest, best, and most powerful patterns—in fact with everything new about the place, except the indomitable spirit of the man, which is still the same old spirit that has made the presses hum day and night wherever he has been located since his arrival in Chicago fifteen years ago.
Quite a number of publishers have suffered no little inconvenience during the brief period of quietude that preceded the reawakening of Regan’s powers; but they now feel assured of having their work done as well and expeditiously as is in the power of wan to do it, at the Original Regan Printing House, whose motto, “We Never Sleep,” is no idle phrase. but a living rule of action. It is like a vivifying shock from an electric battery to see Mr. Regan jumping around among his mammoth presses and directing all his forces with the dominant aim of rapid and perfect workmanship.
There is apparently more music to him in the rhythmical sway and periodicity of the machinery of his press-room than in the most classic opera. Work, good work, rapid work, and plenty of It, is the delight of his life.
- Regan Printing House
1904
- Regan Printing House
Advertising Card
Circa 1899
Inter Ocean, September 27, 1910
Record has been made of the sale of the building and assignment of the leasehold in the ground at 87 to 91 Plymouth place by Franklin Newhall to James L. Regan and Charles S. Peterson. This deal was announced three weeks ago, but at that time the amount of the consideration was not disclosed.
It appears from the recorded instrument that the purchasers gave $50,000, of which $30,000 was in cash and the balance in sixty motes of $1,000 each at 5½ per cent interest, payable on the first day of every month, beginning Nov. 1, 1910.
A report has been circulated that Regan and Peterson intended to combine the Regan Printing house and the Peterson Linotype company and form a new corporation that would erect a large building on the 75 by 100 feet of ground included in the leasehold. This building, It was reported, would cost around $250,000 and be one of the most complete printing establishments in Chicago. It is understood. however, that negotiations are on for additional frontage adjoining the present building on the north and if these are successful it is probable that a building occupying the 150 feet frontage will be erected at a cost considerably in excess of $250,000.
- Story of Chicago (1912), Printology (1913), House Advertisement (1913)
Inter Ocean, January 4, 1913
THE STORY OF CHICAGO IN CONNECTION WITH THE PRINTING BUSINESS
Regan Printing House, Chicago. Illustrated. Price not given.
An outline of the history of printing in Chicago, including references to the city’s publications since the first paper was established here in 1833, and preceded by “The Story of Chicago.” Rightly and appropriately, the volume Is exceedingly well printed.
Chicago Eagle, June 20, 1914
Charles Beecher Lahan, the popular vice president of the big Regan Printing House, is not only a fine public speaker but he is a charming and forceful writer upon all topics. Speaking of the Regan Printing House, perhaps the finest work of its kind we have ever seen, in binding, type and contents, is the “Story of Chicago,” issued by the Regan Printing House.
It is not only a reliable history of early Chicago, but it it the most complete and authentic history over published of every dally and weekly newspaper ever printed in this city.
- Regan Printing House
Greeley-Carlson Street Atlas of Chicago
1891
NOTES:
J. L. Regan & Co. was renting four floors on the corner of Franklin and Lake streets prior to building his new plant on Plymouth Court. The addresses were 16 Franklin street (1880) and 226, 228 & 230 Lake street (1884).
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