Arthur Gerber Designed 1925 CRT-NSL Station Prepped for Move-February 2003
This series of photos shows the relocation a hundred feet east and restoration of the 1925 Dempster Street station in Skokie that was designed by Insull Chief Architect Arthur Gerber. Early on the first opening day in 1925 Gerber was there early that morning on a ladder cleaning the windows to get ready, as one of his sons wrote to me in the 1990s while researching his work.
This station as already detailed was built to serve trains of the Chicago Rapid Transit and the North Shore Line interurbans. They had common ownership at that time under tycoon Samuel Insull's utilities and transportation holdings.
The ugly facades on both ends were removed and the bricked up, Prairie School style windows were reopened and restored.
The Dempster Street Station is perhaps the crown jewel of buildings that Gerber designed.
The architects and contractors of the move and renovation did a masterful job including cutting out and reinstalling the original 1925 inscription in the sidewalk outside the station to the new location in front. There were setbacks including a fire in the roof at the old location just before it was moved.
Arthur Gerber Designed 1925 CRT-NSL Station Prepped for Move-February 2003
This series of photos shows the relocation a hundred feet east and restoration of the 1925 Dempster Street station in Skokie that was designed by Insull Chief Architect Arthur Gerber. Early on the first opening day in 1925 Gerber was there early that morning on a ladder cleaning the windows to get ready, as one of his sons wrote to me in the 1990s while researching his work.
This station as already detailed was built to serve trains of the Chicago Rapid Transit and the North Shore Line interurbans. They had common ownership at that time under tycoon Samuel Insull's utilities and transportation holdings.
The ugly facades on both ends were removed and the bricked up, Prairie School style windows were reopened and restored.
The Dempster Street Station is perhaps the crown jewel of buildings that Gerber designed.
The architects and contractors of the move and renovation did a masterful job including cutting out and reinstalling the original 1925 inscription in the sidewalk outside the station to the new location in front. There were setbacks including a fire in the roof at the old location just before it was moved.