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Potter Palmer (May 20, 1826 – May 4, 1902) was an American businessman who was responsible for much of the development of State Street in Chicago. Born in Albany County, New York, he was the fourth son of Benjamin and Rebecca (Potter) Palmer.
Potter Palmer (1826-1902) Potter Palmer, Chicago Historical Society. Potter Palmer made his first millions with a dry-goods store. Among his innovations were "bargain days" (the first "sales"),...
Mar 17, 2003 · Potter Palmer, the first merchant prince of Chicago, is a native of Albany County, New York. His grandparents moved thither at an early day from New Bedford, Massachusetts. They were Quakers, as were most of the old families of that once important seaport town.
May 15, 2024 · Potter Palmer was an American merchant and real-estate promoter who was responsible for the development of much of the downtown district and the Lake Shore Drive area of Chicago after the city’s great fire of 1871.
Mar 16, 2024 · Potter Palmer’s first slice of the city was the northern three-quarter mile of a formerly squalid Indian trail of ratty buildings he bought up and replaced with appropriately elegant stores in 1867, turning the old trail into State Street (that great street) , the city’s premier shopping stretch.
May 18, 2024 · Bertha Honoré Palmer was an American socialite remembered especially for her active contributions to women’s, artistic, and Chicago civic affairs. Bertha Honoré in 1871 married Potter Palmer, a wealthy merchant who shortly afterward became identified with the Palmer House, one of the nation’s.
Jun 15, 2020 · The wife and later widow of millionaire Potter Palmer—he built the famed Palmer House Hotel in 1871 as her wedding gift—Bertha turned out be not only a collector of art, jewelry and...
Mrs. Palmer was elected president of the board of lady managers of the Columbian Exposition. She traversed Europe interesting foreign governments in the fair. She succeeded. She was appointed by the president of the United States the only woman member of the national committee for the Paris Exposition of 1900.
Potter Palmer. (1826–1902). American merchant and real-estate promoter Potter Palmer was responsible for the development of much of the downtown area of Chicago, Illinois, after the city’s Great Fire of 1871. He also developed Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive area from reclaimed swampland.
Potter Palmer had single handedly reoriented Chicago's downtown from Lake Street -- an east-west road along the stinking canal -- to the new, elegant boulevard that he virtually owned. A massive six-story structure on the corner of State and Washington was leased to Field and Leiter for a new Marshall Field's store.
