Eppenstein’s Commercial, Hospitality and Retail Projects Institutions, 1953 This is the second of three Forgotten Chicago articles on the work of modernist architect and designer James F. Eppenstein. For background on Eppenstein’s prolific career, his hotel and a distinctive train that once ran from Chicago to Milwaukee, visit
Train Talk Bloggers In articles, during presentations, and on tours, Forgotten Chicago aims to bring attention to the careers of little-known design professionals who made a significant, if little remembered or studied, contribution to the Chicago area’s built environment. Perhaps no modernist Chicago architect and designer better exemplifies forgotten
While it is easy to overlook the railroads in Chicago nowadays, this city has been a major rail hub if not the most important railroad city in the nation and the world for more than 150 years. As with any road — rail or otherwise — to be useful for Chicago it
White Way sales brochure, no date As mentioned previously in previous Forgotten Chicago articles here, here, and here, there were a total of 13 Shoreline Motels built in Chicago in the roughly ten year period from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. In this, the final article in the series, we
Courtesy of Jacob Kaplan In this undated postcard, Lake Michigan and North Lake Shore Drive are seen two floors below the pool deck of the Lake Tower Motel. The Lake Tower opened in 1959 and would be demolished less than 30 years later;1 this lot would then remain vacant