It burned down in the Great Chicago Fire in 1871. A view of the Grand Dining Hall at the Palmer House Hotel in the late 1800s. The original Palmer House Barber Shop with 800 silver dollars ...

So claims the Palmer House, a Hilton hotel that has been operating in downtown Chicago since 1873 (the original hotel was built in 1870 but burned down during the Great Chicago Fire a year later).

Little more than a year after its grand opening, the original Palmer House was consumed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Yet, like the mythological phoenix, the Palmer House rose from its ashes.

The original Palmer House was built in 1871 by Potter Palmer who began his career as a bank clerk in upstate New York. He later became a dry-goods store owner in Chicago where he revolutionized ...

It's the heart of downtown Chicago.” 1673 Discovery of Chicago. 1850 Steam and hydraulic elevators are introduced. 1861 The Civil War begins. 1871 Opening of the original Palmer House Hotel and the ...

For all of its history, the famous hotel standing at the southeast corner of State and Monroe is actually the city’s third Palmer House. The original was destroyed in the 1871 Chicago Fire ...

CHICAGO, May 4 ... When the great fire came in 1871 Mr. Palmer had ninety-five fine buildings in the city, including the Palmer House. All were destroyed in that conflagration.