Hurter Family Collection
1894-1999
Businessman Louis P. Hurter, Sr., hired Chicago architect Ernest Mayo in 1895 to design his family’s home at 6316 North Magnolia Ave., in the Edgewater neighborhood in Chicago. Much of the elaborate woodwork inside the home came from the family’s millwork company. In 1921 Hurter’s son, Louis P. Hurter, Jr. hired Chicago architect Arthur Jacobs to design a two-flat apartment building for his wife and himself at 6435 North Leavitt St. in the Chicago neighborhood of Rogers Park. At the same time he also had Jacobs design a mirror-image two-flat apartment building for Hurter’s mother, located four blocks away at 6434 North Claremont Ave. The Hurter Family collection includes photographs, architectural drawings, documents and business papers that represent typical single-family and multi-family urban housing of turn-of-the-century Chicago.
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Correspondence, printed papers, manuscripts, architectural reprographic prints, color photographic prints and black and white photographic prints.