National Register of Historic Places

Nickerson, Samuel, House

Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
Listed
November 7, 1976
Type
Building
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
76000700

About this property

The Samuel M. Nickerson House, located at 40 East Erie Street in the Near North Side neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, is a Chicago Landmark. It was designed by Edward J. Burling of the firm of Burling and Whitehouse and built for Samuel and Mathilda Nickerson in 1883. Samuel M. Nickerson was a prominent figure in the rising national banking industry, who was said to have owned at one point more national bank stock than anyone else in the United States. In 1916, in an early act of historic-building preservation, a group of wealthy Chicagoans bought the house and donated it to the American College of Surgeons (ACS). In addition to using the house as its headquarters, ACS built the adjacent classical Murphy Memorial Auditorium for meetings. When the mansion became too small for the ACS, it began renting it out in 1964. The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and was bought in 2003 by investor and philanthropist Richard Driehaus. It is home to the Richard H. Driehaus Museum, which focuses on architecture of the Gilded Age, the Art Nouveau movement.

Location

40 E. Erie
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
41.89400, -87.62682

Categories

ARCHITECTURE
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Sources

Property data from the National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service (public domain).

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When was Nickerson, Samuel, House listed on the National Register?

Nickerson, Samuel, House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 7, 1976.

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Nickerson, Samuel, House is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

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The period of significance for Nickerson, Samuel, House is recorded as the industrial era.

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