Glessner House Museum
1800 S Prairie Ave
ChicagoIL60616
Payment Methods: Visa, MasterCard
Opens in 51 minutes
- Sunday
- 12:00pm-4:00pm
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- Closed
- Wednesday
- 12:00pm-4:00pm
- Thursday
- 12:00pm-4:00pm
- Friday
- 12:00pm-4:00pm
- Saturday
- 12:00pm-4:00pm
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A beautiful tour through two of Chicago's oldest houses.
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The museum is free on Wednesday.
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A beautiful tour through two of Chicago's oldest houses.
This Romanesque fortress holds memories of when the Glessners were but one family living in a row of millionaires.:
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The house was one of the only mansions to survive after the Prairie Avenue neighborhood started to go downhill at the end of the 19th century. The Chicago Architecture Foundation...
The house was one of the only mansions to survive after the Prairie Avenue neighborhood started to go downhill at the end of the 19th century. The Chicago Architecture Foundation...
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When architect Henry Hobson Richardson designed a 27-room home for John and Frances Glessner in 1885, he created quite a stir. With its oak-paneled English arts interior and rustic granite exterior flanked by a central courtyard, this home was a sophisticated redefinition of American architecture. The home was the subject of a $850,000 renovation, but nearly all the furnishings are original...
