Chicago Interiors: Views of a Splendid World Book

In this book, David Garrard Lowe, author of the highly praised Lost Chicago leads the reader through the doors of Chicago's beautiful restaurants and impressive hotels, its sumptuous residences and exclusive clubs, its powerful train stations and chic night spots. Here are the Sherman House's College Inn, the La Salle Hotel's roof garden, Astor Street's Court of the Golden Hand when it was a private house, the South Shore Country Club in its heyday, and Arlington Park's Post and Paddock Club.

In all, this book presents some 250 illustrations, many reproduced here for the first time, many of vanished places. They are the result of long research in Chicago's great pictorial archives, as well as those of New York, Washington, Boston, and other cities. This is a book to delight those who would love to dine in the Pump Room, dance at the Edgewater Beach Hotel, and then catch the last act at the Palmer House's Empire.

Chicago Interiors will take you on a glamorous trip through time to many of the Windy City's most splendid places--those that are no longer standing and those that remain as a lasting legacy to Chicago's glory and grace.