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Joe Korienek's Collection
 
4/26/2024
 
 
 
 
 
By:Joe Korienek
Dates:12/5/1998 - 12/5/1998
Album Info:These are the offices and erecting floor areas after a fire destroyed them in December 1998. These photos were taken December 5, 1998, about three days after the fire. The Historic Pullman Foundation, or similar group, was supposed to open these spaces as an indoor museum, dedicated to railroad cars and artifacts of the Pullman Company.
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Pullman Company offices and shop floor, 110th & Cottage Grove ave., Chicago
Title:  Pullman Company offices and shop floor, 110th & Cottage Grove ave., Chicago
Description:  Exterior of the shop. The Chicago FD was still coming by making sure every hot spot was out
Photo Date:  12/5/1998  Upload Date: 4/23/2011 8:29:49 PM
Location:  Pullman, IL
Author:  Joe Korienek
Categories:  Station
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Pullman Company offices and shop floor, 110th & Cottage Grove ave., Chicago
Title:  Pullman Company offices and shop floor, 110th & Cottage Grove ave., Chicago
Description:  This would have been a nice museum for Pullman trains and artifacts. The fire was an accident, I think a homeless person keeping warm.
Photo Date:  12/5/1998  Upload Date: 4/23/2011 8:29:53 PM
Location:  Pullman, IL
Author:  Joe Korienek
Categories:  Station
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Pullman Company offices and shop floor, 110th & Cottage Grove ave., Chicago
Title:  Pullman Company offices and shop floor, 110th & Cottage Grove ave., Chicago
Description:  All the roofs gone.
Photo Date:  12/5/1998  Upload Date: 4/23/2011 8:29:57 PM
Location:  Pullman, IL
Author:  Joe Korienek
Categories:  Station
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Pullman Company offices and shop floor, 110th & Cottage Grove ave., Chicago
Title:  Pullman Company offices and shop floor, 110th & Cottage Grove ave., Chicago
Description:  The front entrance to the offices on 110th St. It was all the wood bracing and roof destroyed. My dad said that Pullman tickets were printed here. I used to walk past this going to school 1974-76.
Photo Date:  12/5/1998  Upload Date: 4/23/2011 8:29:23 PM
Location:  Pullman, IL
Author:  Joe Korienek
Categories:  Station
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Pullman Company offices and shop floor, 110th & Cottage Grove ave., Chicago
Title:  Pullman Company offices and shop floor, 110th & Cottage Grove ave., Chicago
Description:  I read somewhere that blueprints for this tower exist and a rebuilding effort may happen if funds are available.
Photo Date:  12/5/1998  Upload Date: 4/23/2011 8:29:30 PM
Location:  Pullman, IL
Author:  Joe Korienek
Categories:  Station
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Pullman Company offices and shop floor, 110th & Cottage Grove ave., Chicago
Title:  Pullman Company offices and shop floor, 110th & Cottage Grove ave., Chicago
Description:  This is the shop floor next to the offices, south of the offices. This was supposed to be an indoor museum space.
Photo Date:  12/5/1998  Upload Date: 4/23/2011 8:29:38 PM
Location:  Pullman, IL
Author:  Joe Korienek
Categories:  Station
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Pullman Company offices and shop floor, 110th & Cottage Grove ave., Chicago
Title:  Pullman Company offices and shop floor, 110th & Cottage Grove ave., Chicago
Description:  looking inside, facing south. A steel company (Perlow) used this space for a time
Photo Date:  12/5/1998  Upload Date: 4/23/2011 8:29:41 PM
Location:  Pullman, IL
Author:  Joe Korienek
Categories:  Station
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