Massasoit House
Life Spam: 1857-1871
Location: SE corner of Old Central Avenue (N. Beaubien Court) and E. South Water Street
Architect: W. W. Boyington
Chicago Tribune, May 27, 1857
A Benefactor About To Leave Us.– Dr. Tilton, now stopping at the Massasoit House, Room No. 11, Chicago, is about, we are sorry to say, to proceed to Boston. For some weeks he has been actively engaged in dispensing the extract of Cannabis Indica, a medical preparation made from the leaves of the East India Hemp plant by his father-in-law, old Dr. H. James. The old Doctor discovered this infallible remedy for consumption, asthma, bronchitis, nervous debility, &c., in Calcutta. The Doctor will leave here the first of June. After he leaves the medicine can be obtained of Dr. Fesler, 207 Randolph street, until his return, which will be in the fall.
Dr. Thomas Tilton,
Room No. 11 Massasoit House.
Chicago Tribune, April 4, 1863
Sale Of The Massasoit.—The Massasoit House was sold yesterday at public venue for $28,000. The furniture went out piecemeal at very high figures.
Chicago Tribune, April 4, 1863
Fire At The Massasoit House.—At twenty minutes past four o’clock yesterday morning, fire was discovered in the crockery room adjoining the dining room, in the second story, on the south end of the Massasoit House, corner of South Water street and Central avenue, and the alarm given. The fire department, with its usual promptness, was soon at the scene of conflagration, and, through its efforts, the main portion of the building was saved from destruction.
The damage done to the building by fire has been estimated at $2,000, and a good deal of a temporary damage was done to the walls and floors by water. From the crockery room the fire worked its way through the floor and spread into the kitchen, pantry and boiler rooms, on the first floor. Of course there is the usual amount of charring of wood work, breakage of door panels, windows, &c., but the building is otherwise not materially injured. Most of the furniture in the dining room was saved.
All agree that the building was fired by some person or persons unknown, and the object in doing so is equally unknown.
On Wedneeday last the House was sold under the hammer of Mesers. W. A. Butters & Co., at auction, for the sum of $26,000. The purchaser was Mr. Fagan, of this city. The furniture, or a goodly portion of it, was also sold in small lots at auction at the same time, but a part of it remained upon the premises. The house, consequently, was left almost vacant.
London Illustrated News, August 22, 1863
Massasoit House
SE corner of Old Central Avenue (N. Beaubien Court) and E. South Water Street
Created by E. Whitefield for the map-making concern of Rufus Blanchard
1862
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