Harriet F. Rees House
- Architect
- Cobb & Frost
- Year
- 1888
- Style
- Romanesque Revival
- City
- Chicago, IL
The Harriet F. Rees House at 2110 S. Prairie Avenue was built in 1888 by the firm Cobb & Frost for Harriet Frances Rees, widow of real estate developer James H. Rees, on a street that by then counted Marshall Field and George Pullman among its residents. Designed in the Romanesque Revival style, the house was designated a Chicago Landmark in 2012.
the building
Prairie Avenue neighbors. The house stood along South Prairie Avenue, which by the 1880s counted Marshall Field and George Pullman among the residents drawn to Chicago's most fashionable street of newly wealthy families.
the style
The Rees House is built in the Romanesque Revival style favored along Prairie Avenue in the 1880s, when the street was Chicago's most fashionable address for the newly wealthy.
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The Rees House was designated a Chicago Landmark on March 14, 2012, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2014, the house and its coach house were moved a block north within the Prairie Avenue District to make way for expanded entertainment facilities near McCormick Place.
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