Built in 1886-1887, this Richardsonian Romanesque Revival-style mansion was designed by Henry Hobson Richardson for John J. Glessner, a machinery manufacturing industrialist, and his family, whom owned the Warder, Bushnell & Glessner Company, which later became the International Harvester Company. The house was owned and occupied by the Glessner family until 1936, during which time it witnessed the transformation of the surrounding neighborhood from a desirable and wealthy residential enclave full of some of Chicago’s wealthiest families into an industrialized district full of new factorie‹›
John J. Glessner House

H. H. Richardson

Interior · Chicago, United States · 1971

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Built in 1886-1887, this Richardsonian Romanesque Revival-style mansion was designed by Henry Hobson Richardson for John J. Glessner, a machinery manufacturing industrialist, and his family, whom owned the Warder, Bushnell & Glessner Company, which later became the International Harvester Company. The house was owned and occupied by the Glessner family until 1936, during which time it witnessed the transformation of the surrounding neighborhood from a desirable and wealthy residential enclave full of some of Chicago’s wealthiest families into an industrialized district full of new factorie

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