![]() ![]() ![]() Architect Dankmar Adler - prior to his partnership with Louis Sullivan - rebuilt the church roof, modified its seating arrangements and redesigned acoustics. Michael’s Church, Unity Church was severely damaged by the fire with only its limestone walls remaining, yet its congregation was eager to rebuild. The walls are solid, and the towers are not materially damaged, but the building is gutted from basement to roof.” - Chicago Tribune, Oct. Robert Collyer and his congregation, stands now stripped of all its grandeur, a ruined pile of blistered stone. “Unity Church, so recently reared in all its beautiful properties by the indomitable energy of Rev. The former Unity Church on Washington Square Park where some of the walls survived the Great Chicago Fire in 1871 and are part of the rebuilt structure, July 12, 2021. The fable was so fetching that it even found its way into Chicago Public School textbooks. Legend has it that when the well ran dry, a keg of cider from Bellinger’s cellar was appropriated to douse the last flames. When the well ran dry, Bellinger ran to nearby Ten-Mile ditch for refills. The men soaked rugs and blankets in Bellinger’s well and carried them to the shingle roof to protect it from cinders falling from the sky. The house was saved from the fire by the quick thinking of Bellinger, who along with his brother-in-law and another policeman ripped up the wooden sidewalk and picket fence surrounding the house, as well as the wooden front porch, to form a fire break. Like the city’s Water Tower, the wooden Italianate building is designed by Boyington. Then he poured water over the building until none was left, and when the water was all gone, he took his cider out of his cellar and used it in the same way.” - Chicago Tribune, Oct. He hauled up the sidewalk as far as possible isolating his house. A policeman named Bellinger, an invalid, was the occupant when the fire raged. One of these on Lincoln place, is a small white cottage, which remains unscathed in the midst of the dreary waste surrounding it. in Lincoln Park survived the Great Chicago Fire in 1871. “Surely no pipe was ever so ornately wrapped as this one, clad in a pale golden limestone carved from quarries around Lemont,” former Tribune reporter Charles Leroux wrote in 2007. The Water Tower formerly contained an almost 140-foot-tall iron standpipe that was needed to provide water pressure for the city’s North Side, which was removed in 1911. Boyington - who also designed the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, the Illinois State Penitentiary in Joliet and the entrance to Rosehill Cemetery (where he’s also buried). The iconic structures are probably the most recognizable public landmarks to withstand the 1871 fire and are symbols of civic pride.īoth Gothic-style buildings were built in the 1860s and designed by William W. The buildings intervening were untouched, and it seemed as if an invisible tongue of flame shot across and struck the roof with the rapidity and fatality of lightning.” - Chicago Tribune, Oct. The flames had only reached Ohio street, when suddenly and in an instant, the roof was blazing high, and the men inside running for their lives. The station's walls survived the fire, but the roof did not. ![]() The view looking north shows the Pumping Station after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. ![]()
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