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Fulton Elevator
Notes:
1893
- Building 9 on the north bank (block 14) = Davidson and Sons' building, built in 1872
- Building 10 (block 13) = Fulton Elevator (1873) -- previous elevator on same site destroyed by fire Sept 7, 1873
- Building 11 (block 14) = St Paul Elevator (1879)
- Building 12/13 (block 29) = Produce Cold Storage Exchange (1890)
The Elevator Fire, Chicago Daily Tribune, Sep 8 1873
- Built by Munn & Scott in 1852
- Fourth grain elevator built in Chicago
- Several blocks in the vicinity destroyed in a fire on Sep 15, 1859 ("Great Fire in the West Division". Chicago Daily Tribune. September 16, 1859.) (Fulton Elevator survived)
- Munn & Scott bankrupt in 1872
- Purchased by George Armour & Co.
- Hoyt & Co bought on Friday before fire
- Destroyed by fire Sept 7, 1873
Big Deal in Elevators, Chicago Daily Tribune, Feb 25 1899
- Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway company paid $400,000 to the Chicago Railway Terminal Elevator company for the St. Paul and Fulton Elevators
Build on Elevator Site, Chicago Daily Tribune, Jul 19 1906
- CM&StP plan to demolish Fulton & St. Paul Elevators
- Munger, Wheeler & Co. became owners of the Fulton Elevator after Munn & Scott, built the St. Paul Elevator next to it
Chicago at a Glance—Seventeenth and Eighteenth Wards, Chicago Daily Tribune, Jun 17, 1900
- Wolf Point Tavern built by James Kinzie, son of John Kinzie
- Proprietors of the Wolf Point Tavern:
- James Kinzie, 1828
- Archibald Caldwell, 1829
- Elijah Wentworth, 1830
- Charles Taylor, 1831–1833
- William Walters, 1833–1836
- "Samuel Miller had a tavern across the river, where the coal yard is now"
- Archibald Caldwell was the first licensed liquor seller in Chicago
- Wolf Point Tavern was the headquarters on General Winfield Scott during the Black Hawk war of 1832
- Green Tree Tavern, also built by James Kinzie, in 1833
- Green Tree Tavern originally stood at the northwest corner of Lake and Canal Streets. Moved in 1880 to 33–37 Milwaukee Avenue (still standing in 1900, and Chicago's oldest building).
- Wolf Point was the name of the jut of land between the forks of the river (on the west side of the river). It in turn gave its name to the hamlet around the forks
Chicago at a Glance—Twenty-first, Twenty-second, and Twenty-third Wards, Chicago Daily Tribune, Jun 17, 1900
- John and Samuel Miller opened a little store in a log house in 1829 on the "point of land now occupied by a coal yard" on the north side of the fork of the river
- In 1830 they added a "lean to" to the back of the cabin and gave shelter to transients for pay
- In 1831 John Miller build a log house near the tavern for use as a tannery (Chicago's first factory)
- The first ferry for hire across the river established in 1831 using a scow built by Samuel Miller. Mark Beaubien was the first ferryman
- 1831 Samuel Miller licensed to sell liquors
Wolf Point is a historic location at the confluence of the North, South and Main Branches of the Chicago River in the present day Near North Side, Loop, and Near West Side community areas of Chicago. The name is said to possibly derive from a Native American Chief whose name translated to mean wolf, but alternate theories exist. Historically the name was given to a point on the west bank of the river at the forks, but gradually it came to denote the forks of the river and the settlement that surrounded it; it is now often used more specifically to refer to a plot of land on the north side of the forks in the Near North Side community area that is owned by the Kennedy family as part of the larger Merchandise Mart Center complex. The river fork was the location of Chicago's first three taverns, its first hotel, Sauganash Hotel, the first ferry, and the first bridges across the Chicago River. Today the north and west banks at the forks are used as parking lost and the south bank serves as the transition point of Wacker Drive from an east-west street to a north-south street.