Schoenhofen Brewery Historic District
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Schoenhofen Brewery Historic District | |
Chicago Landmark | |
Chicago, IL | |
Coordinates | 41°51′27″N 87°38′22″W / 41.8576°N 87.6394°W |
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Built | 1878 |
Architect | Administration: Adolph Cudell Powerhouse: Richard Schmidt, Hugh M. G. Garden |
Architectural style | late-Victorian, Prairie School |
NRHP reference No. | 78001128[1] |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | December 27, 1978 |
Designated CL | July 13, 1988 |
The Schoenhofen Brewery Historic District is centered on the former site of the
Schoenhofen Brewing
Beginning in the mid-1880s, Peter Schoenhofen was among a group of brewers in Chicago who transformed production methods and utilized expanding transportation options. By 1900, there were sixty Chicago breweries that collectively produced over 100 million gallons of beer per year. The Schoenhofen brewery building survived prohibition and competition from national brands. Breweries, food factories, and stockyards dotted the Chicago area by the mid-20th century. The Schoenhofen Brewery was typical of the region, although enterprises were not located in the city center, but along the new rail lines.[2] No mention is made of the artesian springs as the source of the Brewery's water supply [1] "In the basement of the old brewery building is the only artesian well still in existence in the Chicago area. At 1600 feet deep the well is capable of producing one million gallons of water a day for the next 100 years." ( 2000 ) [2] [3]
Overview
Seventeen buildings once occupied the site when the brewery reached maximum capacity in 1910 at 1,200,000 barrels a year.
The brewery district was listed on the
See also
- Green River (soft drink)
- National Register of Historic Places listings in West Side Chicago
- List of defunct breweries in the United States
In popular culture
In the 1980 movie
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System – Schoenhofen Brewery Historic District (#78001128)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007. Retrieved May 6, 2021.
- ^ Keating, Ann Durkin. "Central Area Tour". Tours of Chicagoland. The University of Chicago Press.
- ^ Historic American Engineering Record. Library of Congress.
- ^ "Filming Locations for the Blues Brothers (1980)".
External links
- Chrucky, Serhii. History of the Schoenhofen Complex with illustrations
- "Peter Schoenhofen Brewery" (PDF). Historic American Engineering Record, National Park Service. Library of Congress. Retrieved April 11, 2021.