1893 World’s Fair
Dearborn Street, ca. 1895
About the image
Honoré Block, 1870–1871. Chicago History Museum, ICHi-51134.
This block was once known as the Honoré Block.
The first Honoré Block was destroyed in the Great Fire. The second Honoré “was a massive pile [of] Venetian Renaissance…This was one of the premier Chicago business blocks of the immediate post-Fire years.” Robert Bruegmann, Architects and the City