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19. Nov. 2015 · The inventor of the grain reaper, Cyrus McCormick, decided at the age of 70 to erect a great house the equal of any other in Chicago and took four years from 1875 to 1879 to build the French ...
- Chicago’s greatest remaining Gilded Age mansions
Businessman Cyrus Hall McCormick, Jr. later purchased the...
- Chicago’s greatest remaining Gilded Age mansions
"VILLA TURICUM," the country estate of Mrs. Rockefeller McCormick, at Lake Forest, Illinois, is regarded as the finest example in America of the Italian treatment in landscape design. This notable summer home, of approximately three hundred acres, is situated on a high bluff overlooking Lake Michigan.
Cyrus Hall McCormick was born on February 15, 1809, in Raphine, Virginia. He was the eldest of eight children born to inventor Robert McCormick Jr. (1780–1846) and Mary Ann "Polly" Hall (1780–1853). As Cyrus's father saw the potential of the design for a mechanical reaper, he applied for a patent to claim it as his own invention.
- Founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Co-designer of the mechanical reaper
- Nancy Fowler (m. 1858–1884; his death)
6. Apr. 2024 · The Cyrus McCormick mansion at 675 Rush Street. Chicago has long been known for its neighborhoods, and the McCormicks unintentionally created one of their own, familiar about town as McCormickville, with family mansions clustering on and around Rush Street. Cyrus and Nettie’s 35-room Second Empire-style mansion, modeled after a ...
5. März 2017 · Deerings/McCormicks: Opulence V. Frugality. By Megan McKinney. Among the most lavish houses of late 19th century Chicago: the Cyrus McCormick mansion at 675 Rush Street. The Deering dynasty was founded by William Deering, who had no interest in farming equipment. He was the son of a prosperous Maine woolen mill owner and trained as a ...
3. Jan. 2013 · ' House-in-the-Woods ', the Mrs. Cyrus H. McCormick ( Nancy Fowler McCormick) residence designed by Dwight H. Perkins of Perkins, Fellows & Hamilton c. 1916 in Lake Forest, Illinois. McCormick was the widow of Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor and founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company.
