Clarendon House
Life Span: 1872-1962
Location: Corner North Clark and Ontario Streets
Architect:
- Edwards’ Annual Directory in the City of Chicago, for 1873
Clarendon House, Lyman A. White, prop. 152 N. Clark
Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, 1880
Clarendon House W. K. Steele, prop. N. Clark ne. cor. Ontario
Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, 1884
Clarendon House S. A. Ray, prop. 150 N. Clark
Lakeside Business Directory of the City of Chicago, 1899
Clarendon Hotel Sidney J. Davis, prop. 152 N. Clark
Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, 1904
Clarendon Hotel 152 N Clark
Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, 1911
Clarendon Hotel 635 N Clark
Chicago Evening Post, October 5, 1872
The Clarendon.
North Clark street is solidly built up with good-looking brick and stone blocks tolerably far north, and in a style far better than the old. The best building on this thoroughfare yet erected is the new Clarendon Hotel, on the corner of Ontario street. It is five stories high, built of manufactured stone. It has six handsome stores on the first floor above the basement. The hotel portion of the building commences on the second floor. They style of division and furnishing is modern, with all the conveniences which man’s skill has devised, such as hot and cold water in rooms and radiators and furnaces for heating. The dimensions on the ground are 110 feet on Clark, by 95 feet on Ontario street. The divisions of this in rooms, parlors, dining hall, stores, etc., number over 100. Mr. J.L. Purple, the owner, has expended a $75,000 in its erection, and J.R. Long, the lessee, has put into it nearly $20,000 in furniture. The house was opened on the 1st inst., and is already well patronized.
The Land Owner, February, 1874
- Clarendon Hotel
Robinson Fire Insurance Map
1886
- Clarendon Hotel
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map
1906
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