The Cable House

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">While working out of the Chicago office last week we came across a bit of history while walking around downtown. The Cable House has been preserved and is an architectural <a href="http://webapps.cityofchicago.org/landmarksweb/web/landmarkdetails.htm?lanId=1260">landmark in downtown Chicago</a>. Built for Ransom R. Cable, president of the <a href="http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/c/ch032.html">Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company</a>, "this is one of the few remaining structures that illustrate the original elite residential character or the area. The home was designed by architects, Cobb & Frost, reflecting the Richardsonian Romanesque style in 1886. Common features of this style are heavy, rough-cut stone, round arches & squat columns, deeply recessed windows and pressed metal bays and turrets. This architectural design trend lasted until the late 1890's. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLFTXcKhN4oHoApQ2I2QmZVL9AEdmY0X7gpOI8MEon3OodXRNBEClesx8VAl0QhGmFzF8wwaqhhB18ZarIgcjjmApMKAQjkMIrzLRFsIhW44sxbUVvruFrFFACnMiOtYFyUcUnajMBQmKv/s1600/photo+1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLFTXcKhN4oHoApQ2I2QmZVL9AEdmY0X7gpOI8MEon3OodXRNBEClesx8VAl0QhGmFzF8wwaqhhB18ZarIgcjjmApMKAQjkMIrzLRFsIhW44sxbUVvruFrFFACnMiOtYFyUcUnajMBQmKv/s1600/photo+1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAUf55GaGwrehyr6p3tMvHlAI3SmSzSK2DONLXSKm_S80b3NKHPHvFrW1JOiipVgYkOtzaGDTDLDeqXiB44AC8lYhMmmJ26HEg3zFwmFFaG-mnoz3edG1-FLhA_SeLQInSbQB2blIo597j/s1600/photo+2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAUf55GaGwrehyr6p3tMvHlAI3SmSzSK2DONLXSKm_S80b3NKHPHvFrW1JOiipVgYkOtzaGDTDLDeqXiB44AC8lYhMmmJ26HEg3zFwmFFaG-mnoz3edG1-FLhA_SeLQInSbQB2blIo597j/s1600/photo+2.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVmy2UxBNCaSZZLLH-MI9U3sK2fCCPmzDND6F96CTpXPLq4_GllEkVpRii_Q63vZOFrpf_Q1KkPR0TXKNZK7j5Fg6VwhI90eHFDVBOMu2nWhmDNNCZyW88dpfWs110BF-2key6dBMgDNsi/s1600/photo+3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVmy2UxBNCaSZZLLH-MI9U3sK2fCCPmzDND6F96CTpXPLq4_GllEkVpRii_Q63vZOFrpf_Q1KkPR0TXKNZK7j5Fg6VwhI90eHFDVBOMu2nWhmDNNCZyW88dpfWs110BF-2key6dBMgDNsi/s1600/photo+3.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPEexb8HfxNyLy2fisOXrLmSaP91IaSwUOZHWaTSBck4uQmElOSrG9gj3r27gZ25WcrItc6GJrtUb_OyL3HV4wh2AY959ex5hFM82Ry-XNZj9laG-NjJJrRPdj355BoISav8o5YgPbl6vS/s1600/photo+4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPEexb8HfxNyLy2fisOXrLmSaP91IaSwUOZHWaTSBck4uQmElOSrG9gj3r27gZ25WcrItc6GJrtUb_OyL3HV4wh2AY959ex5hFM82Ry-XNZj9laG-NjJJrRPdj355BoISav8o5YgPbl6vS/s1600/photo+4.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br />

The Cable House

While working out of the Chicago office last week we came across a bit of history while walking around downtown. The Cable House has been pr...

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