Washington Block

Washington Block
Life Span: 1858-1871
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D. B. Cooke & Co.’s City Directory for the Year 1859

Fassett & Cook

(See advt back of cover)

Halpin & Bailey’s City Directory for the Year 1863
Washington Block, ws Clark, bet Washington and Madison streets.
Fassett Samuel M., photographer, 122 and 124 Clark. h. Hyde Park

Edwards’ Annual Directory in the City of Chicago, for 1869
Washington Block—West side Clark, between Washington and Madison.

Edwards’ Annual Directory in the City of Chicago, for 1870
Washington Block—West side Clark, between Washington and Madison.

Chicago Tribune, April 4, 1859

ART MATTERS.– Messrs. Fassett & Cook, Daguerrean and Photographists, will open on the first of May, their new rooms in Larmon’s Block ¹, Nos. 122 and 124 Clark street, West Side, where all the lovers of art will delight to linger. Mr. Fassett will leave for New York this week, to procure the most elegant furniture and adornments that con be found to fit up his rooms in the most superb style. They have been arranged to order for Mr. Fassett, and nothing will be wanting to make them one of the most attractive resorts in the city. The reputation of the city. The reputation of Messrs. Fassett & Cook, as artists ot the highest character, is too well established to need commendation at our hands. Specimens of their superior taste and artistic skill adorn the homes of hundreds of our citizens.

Their present rooms on Lake street, will be continued as usual. Due notice will be giren when their new hall will be opened on Clark street. Their friends will wait impatiently the aunouncement of their first announcement.

Chicago Tribune, November 3, 1859

To Be Closed For The Winter.—Our citizens will learn with regret that Fassett & Cook’s Art Gallery, on Clark street, will be closed for the winter after the first of December. Mr. Fassett has made arrangements to spend the winter at Savannah, Georgia. We need scarcely speak of the splendid daguerreotypes, and the elegant photographs, for which this establishment has become so justly distinguished. For delicacy and beauty of coloring, for accuracy and life-like resemblance, the pictures of Mr. Fassett have, in our humble judgment, no superiors. Many of our citizens will remember the exquisite picture of our fellow citizen, D. B. Cooke, Esq., which was on exhibition at the U.S. Fair. Doubtless many of our citizens then determined to have a family picture, but have since been deferring the matter from week to week. We hope that such and all others who wish to have photographs of themselves and friends will call immediately. Only four weeks remain before Mr. Fassett’s rooms will be closed, and let each one who wants a picture call the first pleasant day. We have no doubt that Mr. Fassett and bis accomplished lady; to whose pencil he is indebted for much of his success, will have a most successful winter at Savannah. Their eminent ability as artists entitles them to it.

Fassett & Cook Photographers

Chicago Tribune, May 18, 1860

Now Open.—Fasset & Cook’s Photographic Palace—the largest and most complete establishment of the kind in America—is now open to the public. Citizens and strangers are invited to call. Rooms Nos. 122 & 124 Clark street

Western Railroad Gazette, December 29, 1860

Photographs.—No more beautiful or acceptable present to a friend, at home or abroad can be made, than a “speaking likeness” of your features—one that will last forever and can be transmitted from one generation to another. Whether you are as homely as “Old Abe” or magnificent as Apollo, your true friends will prize such a gift beyond all others. For taking a correct picture and clothing it with natural, flesh tints as beautiful and far more perfect than a painting by the best artist that ever handled brush and pallette, Messrs. Fassett & Cook, No.’s 122 and 124 Clark street, are unequalled. A painting of the size of their imperial photographs would cost you hundreds of dollars, whereas they can furnish you a better, more lasting and finely finished picture all along from 80 to 75 dollars. A cursory or critical inspection of their gallery of specimens which is open at all hours of day, will convince you that our praise of their handiwork is no exaggeration, and that their pictures are bargains—always.

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¹ This reference was incorrect as the Larmon Block was located on the northeast corner of Clark and Washington

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