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Old Addresses
Posted by:
Rikki
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Date: July 16, 2012 08:14AM
Why did the Brennan address numbering system begin at State and Madison, rather than somewhere else, for example Michigan Avenue and Lake Street?
I've noticed that streets located at even miles away from State and Madison (for example Halsted, Ashland, etc. to the west, and Chicago Avenue, North Avenue, etc. to the north) were already big streets on pre-1909 maps. Why?
Rikki Chunn
I've noticed that streets located at even miles away from State and Madison (for example Halsted, Ashland, etc. to the west, and Chicago Avenue, North Avenue, etc. to the north) were already big streets on pre-1909 maps. Why?
Rikki Chunn
Re: Old Addresses
Posted by:
PKDickman
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Date: July 16, 2012 03:08PM
Rikki Wrote:
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> Why did the Brennan address numbering system begin
> at State and Madison, rather than somewhere else,
> for example Michigan Avenue and Lake Street?
>
>
> Rikki Chunn
Go to
[url=http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/410052.html]Rationalization of streets[/url]
There is a scan of a page from Edw Brennan's scrap book of newspaper clippings.
Zoom in and read all the articles. you will find the answer in there.
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> Why did the Brennan address numbering system begin
> at State and Madison, rather than somewhere else,
> for example Michigan Avenue and Lake Street?
>
>
> Rikki Chunn
Go to
[url=http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/410052.html]Rationalization of streets[/url]
There is a scan of a page from Edw Brennan's scrap book of newspaper clippings.
Zoom in and read all the articles. you will find the answer in there.
Re: Old Addresses
Posted by:
tomcat630
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Date: July 20, 2012 01:59AM
I read the little newspaper clipping and Brennan did say that State and Madison was commonly used as a 'referance point for directions, so use it for the base lines'.
Re: Old Addresses
Posted by:
PKDickman
()
Date: July 20, 2012 10:16AM
tomcat630 Wrote:
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> I read the little newspaper clipping and Brennan
> did say that State and Madison was commonly used
> as a 'referance point for directions, so use it
> for the base lines'.
It also says that they used the "Base lines and section lines being those laid down by the old government survey"
In fact State and Madison was a corner on the section maps since 1830.
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> I read the little newspaper clipping and Brennan
> did say that State and Madison was commonly used
> as a 'referance point for directions, so use it
> for the base lines'.
It also says that they used the "Base lines and section lines being those laid down by the old government survey"
In fact State and Madison was a corner on the section maps since 1830.
Re: Old Addresses
Posted by:
Robert L. Morris
()
Date: August 28, 2012 03:12AM
Does anyone recall or know of L. C. Kearney and Sons Real Estate on 31st Street very near Michigan Avenue? Where id they go and what happened to the buisness.
Was the building at the corner of 31st and Indiana a medical building or a studio building?
Was the building at the corner of 31st and Indiana a medical building or a studio building?
