Lincoln Block and Hall

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Lincoln Block and Hall
Life Span: 1862/1863-1871
Location: NW corner Lake and Franklin streets
Architect: John M. Van Osdel

Halpin’s Chicago City Directory for 1864

Whipple R. M. & Co.

Edwards’ Annual Directory in the City of Chicago, for 1866
Fairbanks, Greenleaf & Co. Fairbanks’ Standard Scales, 226 and 228 E. Lake. E. & T. Fairbanks & Co. St. Johnsbury, Vt., and L. L. Greenleaf and Charles H. Morse, Chicago, Ill. (See adv’t on backbone)

John C. W. Bailey’s Chicago City Directory for 1867
Fairbanks, Greenleaf & Co., (E. & T. Fairbanks & Co., St. Johnsbury, Vy., and L. L. Greenleaf and Charles H. Morse, Chicago, Ill.,) Fairbanks’ Standard Scales, 226 and 228 Lake. (See card Back Bone.)

Edwards’ Annual Directory in the City of Chicago, for 1869
Fairbanks, Greenleaf & Co., (E. & T. Fairbanks & Co., St. Johnsbury, Vt., L. L. Greenleaf, Chicago, Ill. and C. H. Morse, Cincinnati, O.), Fairbanks Standard Scales, 226 and 228 Lake.

Edwards’ Annual Directory in the City of Chicago, for 1870
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Lincoln Hall

Chicago Tribune, December 18, 1865

The Great Conflagration on Lake Street
Lincoln Hall, which was owned by Hon. J. Young Scammon, was worth $50,000, and was completely destroyed. It was insured for $25,000 in the following companies: Mutual Security of New York, $5,000; North American of New York, $5,000; Continental of New York, $5,000: Equitable of Chicago, $5,000, and Citizens of Chicago, $5,000. This building brought Mr. Scammon an annual rental of $8,500.

The following firms occupied the front portion of Lincoln Hall on Lake street:
Nos. 226 and 228, ground floor and basement were occupied by Messrs. Gilbert, Updike & Co., dealers flour, etc, whose loss will aggregate about $10,000. They were insured in the following Companies: Garden City of Chicago, $11,000; Merchants, of Chicago, $1,500; and Peter McQueen, who occupied a portion of No. 224, lost about $600 worth of office furniture, which was insured for $900 in the Providence, or Washington.

Messrs. R. M. Whipple & Co., who occupied the second and third floors over Nos. 226 and 228 as a dry goods and notion establishment, sustained a loss of about $70,000. upon which they had the following insurance : Market, of New York, $5,000; City Fire, of Hartford, $5,000; Equitable, of Chicago, Lafayette, of Brooklyn. N. Y., $10,000: North American, of New York, $15,000; Continental, of New York, $5,000-total, $45,000.

Chicago Tribune, November 10, 1866

E. Loring has supervised the following: improvements and rebuilding, Lincoln Block, corner of Lake and Franklin street.¹

Chicago Illustrated, October, 1866

This scene represents the burning of the marble front block on Lake street, west of Franklin street, in the Fall of 1866. The fire was an obstinate one. It originated in stores on Water street, and burned through to Lake, and presented difficulties of no ordinary character. The Fire Department, however, was equal to the work; they confined the destruction to the premises actually on fire when they reached the scene.

Western Rural, May 26, 1870

Fairbanks, Greenleaf & Co.
Removal. We have inadvertantly omitted editorial of the removal of the above firm mention from Lake street to much larger and more commodious rooms at Nos. 137 and 139 State, Chicago. The fame of their scales of various kinds, sizes and styles, is world wide, whose superior excellence styles, is attested by the constantly increasing business which every year shows. The demand business for more room to transact their immense business in Chicago, made their recent change of location a necessity.

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¹ Sanford E. Loring, architect J. M. Van Osdel, r. 88 Michigan av.—Halpin’s Chicago City Directory for 1864

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