Selections From Mead's Manual

ILLINOIS DIVISION

DEARBORN STATION

The amount of rental paid to the C. & W. I. RR Co. For rent of Dearborn Station by the Santa Fe is $100,000.00 per annum with a deduction of $30,000 per annum, making a net total of $70,000.00. In addition to this we also pay 1/6 of the rental and taxes paid by the C. & W.I. to the A.T. & S. F. For rent of Plymouth Place property, and a like proportion of the rent paid by the C. & W. I. To the Wabash for rent of property between 12th and 15th streets, from which is deducted a proportion of the trackage charge recieved by the C. & W.I. from the Chespeake & Ohio, which is credited to income in the C. & W.I. Accounts.

Contracts for the building of Dearborn Station were let in 1883. The station was opened for business in May 1885. There was no general contract. The work was all divided up between the following contractors, to wit;


Joseph Downey - Foundation
H. A. Streeter - Iron Work
Tomlinson & Reed - Cut Stone
Perth-Amboy Terra Cotta Co. - Terra Cotta
Edward Hudson - Carpenter work
Durham Drainage Co. - Drains
E. R. Davis - Roofing
Frank Tudor - Heating
M. J. Carboy - Plumbing
Dauchy & Company - Lighting Fixtures
H. Diblee - Tile Floors
Healy & Millett - Stained Glass
J. B. Sullivan & Bro. - Painting

Pencil note says Architect was C. L. W Eidlitz

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