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Hawthorne works
Posted by:
PKDickman
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Date: February 22, 2011 08:03PM
While killing time on Google maps today, I discovered something sad.
My favorite building in all of Chicagoland has been demolished.
At Ogden and Kenneth on the corner of what had been the Western Electric Hawthorne works, stood a huge clerestory factory building.
A common brick building with red brick accents. It's front had three enormous arched windows. I first saw it back in the '90s when my brother took a road trip down rt66.
We stopped and stared at it. My brother observed that the form of this building was actually a basilica and we mused that this building was a cathedral to industry.
I would drive by it whenever I was out that way. I had always hoped to spend an afternoon photographing it, but I haven't gotton out there for a few years
Sometime between 2008 and 2009, it was turned into a vacant lot.
I gleebed this photo from Google earth's old street views.[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/18070751@N05/5468903319/]
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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/18070751@N05/5468903319/]Hawthorne Works[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/18070751@N05/]pkdickman[/url], on Flickr
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/22/2011 08:54PM by PKDickman.
My favorite building in all of Chicagoland has been demolished.
At Ogden and Kenneth on the corner of what had been the Western Electric Hawthorne works, stood a huge clerestory factory building.
A common brick building with red brick accents. It's front had three enormous arched windows. I first saw it back in the '90s when my brother took a road trip down rt66.
We stopped and stared at it. My brother observed that the form of this building was actually a basilica and we mused that this building was a cathedral to industry.
I would drive by it whenever I was out that way. I had always hoped to spend an afternoon photographing it, but I haven't gotton out there for a few years
Sometime between 2008 and 2009, it was turned into a vacant lot.
I gleebed this photo from Google earth's old street views.[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/18070751@N05/5468903319/]
[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/18070751@N05/5468903319/]Hawthorne Works[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/18070751@N05/]pkdickman[/url], on Flickr
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/22/2011 08:54PM by PKDickman.
Re: Hawthorne works
Posted by:
Richard Stachowski
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Date: February 22, 2011 11:14PM
[b]This could be the cable plant when I worked there in 1955. They made thier own cables and wires from scratch at that time . Every part of the telephone equipement was made there at Howthorn Works.[/b]
Re: Hawthorne works
Posted by:
Chuck D
(12.104.103.---)
Date: February 18, 2013 03:11PM
That building was the Rod and Wire mill. I served a portion of my apprenticeship in that building, and my father polished the dies for the wire drawing machines there too.
Re: Hawthorne works
Posted by:
Lance Grey
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Date: February 18, 2013 07:49PM
PKDickman Wrote:
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> Sometime between 2008 and 2009, it was turned into
> a vacant lot.
> I gleebed this photo from Google earth's old
> street
> views.http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5220/54689033
> 19_2ff9dafd39_o.jpg
> Hawthorne Works by pkdickman, on Flickr
Google Earth has historical street views to some extent?
Do you know how far back they go?
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> Sometime between 2008 and 2009, it was turned into
> a vacant lot.
> I gleebed this photo from Google earth's old
> street
> views.http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5220/54689033
> 19_2ff9dafd39_o.jpg
> Hawthorne Works by pkdickman, on Flickr
Google Earth has historical street views to some extent?
Do you know how far back they go?
Re: Hawthorne works
Posted by:
PKDickman
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Date: February 18, 2013 08:36PM
Lance Grey Wrote:
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> PKDickman Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
>
> > Sometime between 2008 and 2009, it was turned
> into
> > a vacant lot.
> > I gleebed this photo from Google earth's old
> > street
> >
> views.http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5220/54689033
>
> > 19_2ff9dafd39_o.jpg
> > Hawthorne Works by pkdickman, on Flickr
>
> Google Earth has historical street views to some
> extent?
> Do you know how far back they go?
Not that I know of.
I merely meant that the street views were older than the demolition.
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> PKDickman Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
>
> > Sometime between 2008 and 2009, it was turned
> into
> > a vacant lot.
> > I gleebed this photo from Google earth's old
> > street
> >
> views.http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5220/54689033
>
> > 19_2ff9dafd39_o.jpg
> > Hawthorne Works by pkdickman, on Flickr
>
> Google Earth has historical street views to some
> extent?
> Do you know how far back they go?
Not that I know of.
I merely meant that the street views were older than the demolition.
Re: Hawthorne works
Posted by:
Jeff_Weiner
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Date: January 20, 2016 02:21AM
Btt.
Re: Hawthorne works
Posted by:
carmech
(---.hawaiiantel.net)
Date: January 21, 2016 07:43PM
Richard
My uncle worked at the 26th street plant as a welder,
his name was Tony Harmon.
My uncle worked at the 26th street plant as a welder,
his name was Tony Harmon.
Re: Hawthorne works
Posted by:
Dunning1
(---.dhs.gov)
Date: January 22, 2016 01:42PM
I was surprised to read recently that Diamond T Truck was located on 26th Street too, and the name came from the owner, a guy named Tilt. I guess the factory closed down when White bought out Diamond T in the 1940s.
