Historic Pullman Annual House Tour

06/23/2025

06/19/2025

The annual Hotel Florence Murder Mystery Dinner was held on June 24 and June 25, 1994. This skit centered around a "fundraising event" for Yancy Harrigan and...

06/15/2025

While many know George Pullman as the father of the town and company that bear his name, it’s worth remembering that he was also a father in the traditional sense.

Today, we’re celebrating fathers everywhere, including George M. Pullman, not just an industrialist and visionary, but also a father to four children: Florence, Harriet, George Jr., and Walter. His eldest daughter, Florence, would later lend her name to the Hotel Florence, a grand centerpiece of the Pullman community that still stands today.

This Father’s Day, we honor the legacies fathers leave behind, both in the families they nurture and the communities they help build.

Image: A Pullman family portrait taken at the Pullman summer home in Thousand Islands
Image Credit: Glessner House

06/12/2025

06/11/2025

06/09/2025

The Historic Pullman Garden Club's Garden Walk is just around the corner!

The Garden Walk is a yearly staple within our community. This year's theme is "It Takes a Village: Pullman’s Public Gardens" and focuses on the public gardens that the Club along with Pullman Arts, Passion of Pullman Gardens, and Cooperation Operation manage for the public to enjoy. Each site will offer a unique activity: mini history-in-the round lectures, historical photo displays, a poetry path, and more. In addition, there will be a boutique and plant sale to support the Club’s green efforts. Guided tours will be available at 10:30am and 1:30 pm.

We hope to see you there!

06/05/2025

The 14th Annual State Meeting of the Patriotic Order Sons of America took place in Pullman on June 5, 1900, with nearly 100 delegates from across the state a...

05/31/2025

Alfonso Quiroz speaks with Teri Gage, the Superintendent of the Pullman National Historical Park. Teri Gage grew up in the small town of Munising, Michigan—gateway to Pictured Rocks National Lakeshor

05/31/2025

📸 On May 31, 1966, Glenn Dahlby captured this powerful image of the rear of the Langley Block House at 11237 S. Langley Avenue in what is now Pullman National Historical Park. Taken more than 60 years after the Pullman Company sold off its residential properties and ceased maintenance, the photo tells a quiet story of decline—fading paint, weathered three-story wooden porches, and yards where grass had given way to dirt and debris. Yet even in the wear, life carried on, with clothes fluttering on the line in the breeze. 🏚️🌬️ Learn more about how Pullman residents preserved and saved the historic town on guided tours. Tickets: https://pullmanhouseproject.eventbrite.com

05/29/2025

On Friday, May 30, 2025, Superintendent Teri Gage will hang up her flat hat for the last time. After nearly four decades of service with the National Park Service [NPS], she has announced her retirement. A native of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Teri started her NPS career in 1986 as a clerk-typist at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, while still in high school. She went on to serve in administrative management positions at several parks throughout the Service before being named Superintendent of Pullman National Monument (Now Pullman National Historical Park) in early 2020.

Under her leadership, the iconic Pullman clock tower building was transformed from a hulking shell of a building to a vibrant visitor center and exhibit hall that connects visitors from around the world to the compelling Pullman stories of American opportunity, industrialization, urban planning, architecture, rail transportation, and labor and civil rights. She saw the park through its redesignation as a National Historical Park, partnered with the Illinois Department of Natural Resources to complete the Joint General Management Plan, and nurtured a talented cadre of park rangers who will continue to fulfill the National Park Service mission.

"Serving as the Superintendent of Pullman has been an honor and is the perfect capstone to my National Park Service career," Gage said about her final assignment. "I will always be proud of the work we've accomplished at Pullman and I will be eternally thankful to our park rangers who make the magic happen and to all of our park partners, neighbors, went volunteers who provided support along the way. I've had a great career with the National Park Service. No regrets."

Teri and her husband Paul Taylor, a 15-year veteran of the National Park Service, plan to retire in northern Wisconsin.

Please join us in saying goodbye.

Image: A headshot of Superintendent Teri Gage.
Image Credit: NPS Image

05/29/2025

📸✨ The comings and goings of the wealthy at train depots always made for a perfect society page snapshot — and this one is no exception!

Here’s a glamorous moment captured on May 29, 1936: Harriet Lowden Madlener, former Illinois Governor Frank O. Lowden, Florence Pullman Lowden, and Albert Madlener, Jr. pose with poise and style at the station before boarding their private train. 🚉💼💎

Traveling in Pullman luxury, they embody the elegance of an era when the journey was just as refined as the destination. Learn more about the Pullman family on guided tours. Tickets:. https://pullmanhouseproject.eventbrite.com
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